Is ODP.NET required for Oracle 11g Client?

Question

I may be asking the wrong question here, I\'m willing to change it if so.

I have a project that is using the Microsoft.NET Oracle provider (our plan is to change to

Answer 1

I have found many times that the error "requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater" is a notoriously misleading error. From distant memory I seem to remember that this usually indicates a file IO permissions problem. I think it may be that the ASP.NET worker process (or whichever identity an application is running under) requires some sort of read or write permission to a folder in the oracle client folder hierarchy...