Oracle Instant Client and Entity Framework trouble with configuration

Question

I\'m trying to learn and figure out if it is possible to deploy an MVC, EF, ODAC 11.2.0.3 app to a server that has a previous version of ODP.NET installed. Rather than updat

Answer 1

I was getting the same error (data provider not found) when deploying ODP.NET via Instant Client. The only thing that I needed to do was to add the following to my exe.config file (inside the tag)