Oracle- and ODBC Provider missing in Visual Studio Express 2005

[Sascha]

Hello,

I have Visual C# Express 2005 and Oracle 10g installed. After some
problems with different versions of Oracle including a restoring of a
system restore-point I now have the following problem: When I try to add
a data source to my project I can only select Access-File via OLEDB or
Local MSSQL Server file via .NET provider. As far as I know there should
also be an Oracle and an ODBC Provider available, but they are missing.
I tried to install everything new including the NET-2.0-framework, but
still the same problem. Somewhere I read, that in the machine.config
file the available providers are listed, but there are all 4 present.
Does anyone know what to do?

Thanks in advance
Sascha

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

My personal advice is to pull down the ODP.NET project from Oracle. You will
not get the drag and drop ability, but it is a much better package for
Oracle access. I believe the Oracle bits are missing from the free version,
at least in the drag and drop bits; if so (have not checked as I am not
working Oracle now and have VS team suite), you will have to hand code or
move up.

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Gregory A. Beamer

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