CLOB data through Visual Basic 2005

Question

Does anyone have any sample code for writing a CLOB field through VB .NET? From what I've read, if you simply place the data into the field, then this will work but you are still limited to 4000 characters. To write a true CLOB value, you need to stream the data to the field, but I can't figure out how to do this.

Answer 1

OK. After many hours of searching I've finally put together something that works. Not sure if this is technically correct, but here it is for anyone else who gets stuck trying to do this:
Dim myBigString as String = "The BIG chunk of text that you need to store"
Dim conn As New OracleConnection
conn.ConnectionString = "Your connection string"
Dim cmd As New OracleCommand
conn.Open()
Dim CLOBobject As New OracleClob(conn)
CLOBobject.Write(myBigString.ToCharArray(), 0, myBigString.ToCharArray().Length)
cmd.Connection = conn
cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO SOMETABLE VALUES (<otherfield>,<otherfield>,<etc>,:1)"
Dim paramMyBigString As OracleParameter = cmd.Parameters.Add("1", OracleDbType.Clob)
paramMyBigString.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input
paramMyBigString.Value = CLOBobject.Value
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
conn.Close()