The number of lines to prepare an OracleCommand object before calling a stored procedure can quickly become redundant and boring. This is how it usually looks like:

var con = new OracleConnection("connection string");
var com = con.CreateCommand();
com.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
com.CommandText = "get_employees";
com.CommandTimeout = 60;

I created a simple extension method on the OracleConnection class that reduces the code to:

var com = con.CreateCommand("get_employees");

Here is the extension method.

public static OracleCommand CreateCommand(
    this OracleConnection con,
    string commandText,
    CommandType commandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure,
    int commandTimeout = 60,
    bool bindByName = true)
{
    var cmd = con.CreateCommand();
    cmd.CommandType = commandType;
    cmd.CommandText = commandText;
    cmd.CommandTimeout = commandTimeout;

    // binds the parameters by name.
    cmd.BindByName = bindByName;

    return cmd;
}