Taking a look at ODP.NET and .NET. During this session we will examine the features and capabilities of ODP.NET. Overview of connection pooling. Tuning .NET Applications in Visual Studio with SQL Tuning Advisor and Oracle Performance Analyzer Using Database Change Notification With ODP.NET and Oracle Database 11g Then we will finish up with a look at Entity Framework and Oracle. Time permitting we will look at some of the issues of making Oracle play nice with Visual Studio or Visual Studio play nice with Oracle in a 64 bit environment.