Introduction
This blog post demonstrates how to set up a Telerik OpenAccess ORM project for use with Oracle databases. We will use the Visual Designer to design our domain classes and then generate the corresponding Oracle database schema.
Install ODP.NET
Telerik OpenAccess ORM uses the ADO.NET (Oracle.DataAcces.Client) Provider from Oracle called ODP.NET. This can be downloaded from the Oracle Website.
The way to your model
Create a new solution in Visual Studio and add a new project of the type 'Class Library'. Our next step is to create a domain model. To do this we use the 'Domain Model Wizard'. To invoke the wizard, right-click your project and select (Telerik OpenAccess ORM -> Add Domain Model) as shown below:
Now you get asked for some details about your domain model. In our case we want to start from scratch so we choose 'Empty domain model' and select Oracle as ...