Oracle.ManagedDataAccess and ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Question

I have a challenging situation on one of our servers. I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application that needs to connect to an Oracle 12c database. It does so using the following co

Answer 1

I did not quite have the same scenario as this case does, but I did have very similar results. What I did to sort out the problem was, I enclosed the password in quotes like the following (VB.NET):

cnx.ConnectionString = "User ID=MYID;Password=""MyPass"" ;Data Source=MyTEST"

or use chr(34) as follows

cnx.ConnectionString = "User ID=MYID;Password="+chr(34)+"MyPass"+chr(34)+" ;Data Source=MyTEST"