Calling stored procedure from VB.net

I am not 100% sure about how to call a procedure from VB.net. But I recommend instead of calling a procedure, you should call a function. Although you can pass an out parameter to a procedure, it is much easier to understand the return feature of a function. Try this:

 Public static 
  
    arraytest(
    
    
     )
 {

  }


    
   
  

In order to create a function with a varray datatype parameter, you should create a varray datatype. I have created two varrays, 1)return_array; 2)named_array.

CREATE TYPE return_array AS VARRAY(10) of VARCHAR2(10);

CREATE TYPE named_array AS VARRAY(10) of VARCHAR2(10);

After creating your arrays, you can now create your stored function arrayTest.

CREATE or REPLACE FUNCTION arrayTest(array1 named_array)
      RETURN return_array
   as
begin
     -- some data manipilation
  null;
exception
     when others then
      null;
end;

For more info on VARRAY see Chapter 6 in "Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL Programming" by Oracle Press.