How hard can it be people?!?

Alright, you have .NET, you have ORACLE, and you have LOB fields (BLOB/CLOB, i.e. a place to store huge amounts of data for anything (BLOB) or for up to 4GB of text (CLOB) for those who don't know). How hard can it be to make a relatively coherant set of simple conversions, particularly for things over 32kb in size?!?! Obviously it isn't easy, or we wouldn't have to go through all of this mess. Needless to say I'm more than a little ticked off at both Microsoft and ORACLE on this one. It should be pretty normal to allow people to store things like files, images, and large strings on the database, and we've been doing it for years. So why does it have to be so hard to do? Why can't we just have a simple conversion from the .NET type to the ORACLE parameter? Why isn't there a simple way for us to pass BLOB parameters in .NET? It's time to get on the ball over there at ORACLE and Microsoft; give us a good solution.