Does ODP.NET require Oracle Client installation

Question

I have to connect Oracle 11g DB from .NET code. For that purpose I installed ODP.NET bur after reading some forum posts I recognized that I need Oracle Client installation t

Answer 1

I am leaving this answer because with the release ODP.net managed driver, old answers are a bit obsolete now.

ODP.net managed driver is released now.

• 64-bit Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC)

  Important: The 32-bit Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio download is required for Entity Framework design-time features. The downloads that support Entity Framework deployment below do not contain design-time tools, only run-time support.

• 32-bit Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio

Currently available version ODAC 12cR2 is backwards compatible with Oracle 10gR2 or later. See the System Requirements section of ODAC 12cR2 Installation Instructions. ODAC 12cR2 requires/supports .Net frameworks from version 4 to 4.5.1.

Previous version ODAC 12cR1 too is backwards compatible with Oracle 10gR2 or later according to it's installation instructions.