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Devel 3.0 released

I have finally open sourced my Oracle database IDE, Devel 3.0.

It does not have as many features as its competitors but it is much, much faster.
The whole program is 1Mb and starts under a second.
If you are working with Oracle database, doing SQL or PL/SQL, it is worth a try.

The program has been originally written 10 years ago and has been updated up to 1999 but it still does the job and does it well.
After some deep digging I found the CD with the sources and I finally updated the project to compile with Visual Studio 2005, added copyrights in the sources, updated the contact information and uploaded the sources & executable on Google Code.

Kudos to Oracle for staying backward compatible from 7.3.4 up to 10.2 (I still have to try 11.0)
Kudos to Microsoft for being able to load project files from 4 releases back.

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5 Responses to “Devel 3.0 released”

  1. Amaury Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 7:38 am

    Oops… I got a dialog saying

    The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

    XP sp2
    C:\Devel3
    from command line: “The system cannot execute the specified program.”

    Idea ?

  2. cedric Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:41 am

    Might be that the MSFT DLLs are missing.
    Could you please try http://devel-ide.googlecode.com/files/Devel3.01.zip ?

  3. Amaury Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    I get exactly the same messages :(

    I tried on 2 other computers (XP sp2): family computer gives the same error message, dev computer popups a dialog with title OciEx :

    Cannot find Oracle DLL. Do you want me to produce a report ?

    And in that report:

    Searching the Oracle DLL
    Searching the default library locations
    LoadLibrary(ORA804) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA803) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA802) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA73) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(OCIW72) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA72) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA71WIN) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA7WIN) returns 126
    LoadLibrary(ORA6WIN) returns 126
    Searching every ora*.dll in the Oracle Path
    LoadLibrary(\BIN\¨Kx) returns 126

    None of my computers has Oracle soft installed.
    My guess is you’re relying on libs not everybody has.

    Machine with OciEx dialog has registry entries up to:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CedricDandoy\OciEx\Config\
    But there are no keys set.

    Other machines have no registry entries at all.

    I have admin privs on two of them and power user (ie I can install softs) on the third one.

    Can you reproduce those behaviors ? Or is it some european thing ;-)

    Amaury

  4. cedric Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 5:48 am

    You need the Oracle client that you can download for free on OTN:
    http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/instantclient/instantclient-basic-win32-10.2.0.3-20061115.zip

  5. Amaury Says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 11:40 am

    I went back to google code and saw you actually mention it upfront. My bad …

    I guess I was more interested in the pictures and then went to the download tab directly.

    My first idea was to look for info in the zip file, so I guess it wouldn’t hurt to create a little InstallNotes.txt

    Thanks for your help ;-)