Oracle Globalization Support in Oracle Data Provider for .NET

• Objective of the Sample Application
• Overview of the Sample Application
• User Notes with Screen Shots
• Required Software
• Extracting the Sample
• Database Setup
• Preparing and Running the Sample 
• Description of Sample files 

This purpose of this sample is to demonstrate Globalization support in Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) to manage culture sensitive data in the database using C# applications.

1. The sample at the start up shows a list of products from database as shown in Figure 1.2 

   

                 Figure 1.2 

2. The user can select a product and click "Edit Product Details" button to view the details of product from database as shown in Figure 1.3 . The Price column uses globalization settings modified on session while all other columns use globalization settings modified on thread.

   

                    Figure 1.3

3. The user can modify the details and click "Update" button to update the changes to database.

   NOTE: This sample by default supports english character set fonts for english, german, french etc languages. To test this sample with some other language characterset like Arabic, hindi, japanese the user can install the font and then change the propery for description textbox.

• Visual C# installed with MS Development Environment 7.0 version (MS Visual Studio .NET)  including MS .NET Framework 1.0 version

• Oracle8i Database or later running SQL*Net TCP/IP listener (can be downloaded here)

• Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) (can be downloaded here)

Unzip Globalization.zip using Winzip or command utility to your convenient directory. Extraction of the zip file results  in the creation of Globalization directory. 

Connect to your database as any user and run the script Globalization\Setup\DatabaseSetup.sql at the SQL prompt.

@<Extract_Dir>\Globalization\Setup\DatabaseSetup.sql

where <Extract_Dir> is the directory where you have extracted the sample.

The script creates a user "OraNet" with password "OraNet".

It creates a PRODUCTS table as below and populates it with initial data.

1. Ensure that the Database setup has been completed. 

2. Open Globalization.sln using Visual Studio .NET from <Extract_Dir>\Globalization folder.

3. Edit Config.cs file to change the database connection parameters i.e.TNSName for database you want to use . You can also change NLS parameters to your choice. The default settings in Config.cs are language="AMERICA" and territory="AMERICAN". Users can try
   different settings as below. For example,

   //public static string language="AMERICA";   // NLS Language 
   //public static string territory="AMERICAN"; // NLS Territory 
   
   //public static string language="JAPANESE";  // NLS Language 
   //public static string territory="JAPAN";    // NLS Territory 
   
     public static string language="FRENCH";    // NLS Language 
     public static string territory="FRANCE";   // NLS Territory 

   Save this file.

4. Ensure that the following .NET Component References have been added to Globalization project:

   • System
   • System.Data
   • System.Drawing
   • System.Windows.Forms
   • System.XML
   • Oracle.DataAccess.
   
   To add the above .NET Components 
   • a)Go to Menu ->View-> Solution Explorer.
   • b)Right click on Globalization project, choose 'Add Reference'.
   • c)Choose the above .NET Components from the list displayed.
   • d)Click 'Select', then OK.
   • e) The chosen .NET component gets added to the project. 


5. Build and run the sample.

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