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Ah, thank you. &nbsp;I was leaving out the cast and also the cmd.Connection = conn;
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Ah, thank you.  I was leaving out the cast and also the cmd.Connection = conn;

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Well, once again C# just gets me in a tizzy. &nbsp;Forgive me but I am used to VB.NET. &nbsp;How in God's name do I create an Oracle connection and then ExecuteOracleScalar? &nbsp;I've googled about 100 pages and have not found one example. &nbsp;Nor is it in MSDN. &nbsp;Nor is it in the help that comes with Visual Studio. &nbsp;Apparently, it is 100 percent different from VB.NET.<br />
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Thanks in advance.
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Well, once again C# just gets me in a tizzy.  Forgive me but I am used to VB.NET.  How in God's name do I create an Oracle connection and then ExecuteOracleScalar?  I've googled about 100 pages and have not found one example.  Nor is it in MSDN.  Nor is it in the help that comes with Visual Studio.  Apparently, it is 100 percent different from VB.NET.

Thanks in advance.

How to connect to Oracle and ExecuteOracleScalar in C#

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).