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Browse All TopicsI am trying to run a program that was developed by another party. The program is a C#.NET application that was developed against an Oracle 11 database and Oracle 11 Client/SDK. The machine I need to run the program on has an Oracle 10g client and when I try to run the program I get the following unhandled exception:
System.IO.FileNotFoundExce
It appears that the application is looking for a specific version of the Oracle DLL but I do not understand why. Is there a way to make the application work with the Oracle 10g client?
Thanks for your thoughts,
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by: schwertnerPosted on 2009-03-16 at 02:50:49ID: 23895892
Oracle Forums say:
2 to %ORACLE_HOME%
0\client_1
1) Close Visual Studio
2) Copy over the MSVCR71.dll from
%ORACLE_HOME%\oui\lib\win3
After installing ODAC 11g on a machine with Visual Studio 2005 and/or Visual Studio 2008:
..where %ORACLE_HOME% would be the directory where you installed ODAC 11g, for example C:\app\user1\product\11.1.
3) Restart Visual Studio, and attempt to use ODT.
Please let me know if this fixes your problem!