&, &&, and @s causing ORACLE Database Project issues And SLOW Run

Question

Hello I am encountering an issue while "Run"ing functions/sp/packages from an ORACLE DATABASE PROJECT.
We are supporting a legacy application that utilizes HTP.PRINT. We decided that it would be nice to have it as an Oracle Database Project but when we save the file it is croaking at us.
We are using
ODTwithODAC1110720
Visual Studio 2008
Oracle 10g r2
The specific issue happens when an @ is the first line in the file and when utilizing && in javascript (all being emitted from HTP.Print). Now I know we can work around these limitations (escaping the &s and wrapping the line) but is there any way to get these to work in the IDE w/o the escaping and such?
For instance:
In visual Studio Create a Function1 as such
DROP FUNCTION FUNCTION1;
CREATE FUNCTION FUNCTION1 (
  PARAM1 IN NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER IS
BEGIN
HTP.PRINT ('    if (popupStatus == 1 && okDisabled==false) {');
         htp.print('
<style>
@media printfooter; {
}   etc etc etc   ');
  RETURN PARAM1;
END FUNCTION1;
/You will get this result:
Connected.
------ Running '***\Project1\Functions\Script1.sql' @**.** ------
Function dropped.
SP2-0310: unable to open file "media.sql"
Enter value for okdisabled:
Operation canceled by user
-- this locks the file
If I go ahead and hit OK (in a new unlocked file)
SP2-0310: unable to open file "media.sql"
Enter value for okdisabled: old   5: HTP.PRINT ('      if (popupStatus == 1 && okDisabled==false) {');
new   5: HTP.PRINT ('      if (popupStatus == 1 ==false) {');
**/You will notice that when the function is created it just skips the & and @s
FUNCTION FUNCTION1 (
  PARAM1 IN NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER IS
BEGIN
HTP.PRINT ('    if (popupStatus == 1 ==false) {');
         htp.print('
<style>
}   etc etc etc   ');
  RETURN PARAM1;
END FUNCTION1;and just a little insult to injury on this, each "run" takes upwards to 20-25 seconds from Visual studio (this is a deal breaker for us to use the tool -- when SQL Developer takes mere moments) -- is there a configuration setting awry?
So I guess the questions are these (sorry for the ramble)
1) How, in the VS 2008 IDE, can we accommdate & and && and @s without escaping/workarounds? (these work fine in developer)
a) I have noticed that the escape character work around is ONE way ... thus if I have the package body in the Oracle Database Project, add "set escape \ " then escape all of my & and && and @s it works. but... the code is saved in Oracle without the escape characters (understandable) but if it changes in Oracle then I push the changes down I lose all of my escape characters.
2) Why does each RUN take so long? working in developer & even the Server Explorer edited function are almost instantaneous.
-- I want to add, during my escape character tests EACH RUN took upwards to 30-45 seconds, so for 4 small simple test cases it was approaching 2 minutes of just save time...
so far these two shortcomings are barrier for our company to utilize these features (it's hard to try to sell the dept. on anything that doesn't handle escapes well AND -- the big AND -- takes entirely too long to save). any advise?
thnx
Edited by: tanging on Jul 1, 2010 4:47 AM

Answer 1

we can just set the escape character and it works fine,
set escape '~'
create or replace ....when/if we have to pull down from production level we'll have to be mindful to change & and @s to have a preceding escape character (and add the set escape to the top) --> which is a step back from SQL Developer which handles this flawlessly.
now the timing -- I believe it to be a timing issue on our network (therefore I've wasted your time). We have a default shared drive that is anything but speedy and our "default" homes in Visual Studio pointed to the shared drive. While the project/solution were on our local drives - the temp drive was the slow default. Changing that locally seems to have made the timing issue go away. (although on the first save of the body spec after the change and reboot it took 35 seconds but on subsequent runs it Ran in acceptable time limits).