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I have been charged with making a prototype of a project work with dotConnect for Oracle and Entity Framework Code First prior to my manager authorizing the purchase of a license.

Utilizing "dotConnect for Oracle Samples - DataReader", everything seems to work via a Direct Connection.
However, when I try to run CrmDemo.EFCodeFirst.dcOracle project with the same connection string, it throws "The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string." with an inner exception of "Can not obtain Oracle client information from registry. Make sure that Oracle Client Software is installed, or use Direct mode of connecting to server."

I've search through your site and read every post associated with different combinations of word from the error messages with no success of finding a solution.

I downloaded docConnect Pro (Devart.Data.Oracle version 7.2.114.0). Nuget updated the CrmDemo project to EF 4.4.0.

Additionally, which of the following is correct? Neither combo resolves issue above, but would like to know which is correct:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Devart\dotConnect\5.0\Net2\Common\Devart.Data.Oracle.dll & Devart.Data.dll
OR
C:\Program Files (x86)\Devart\dotConnect\Oracle\Devart.Data.Oracle.dll & Devart.Data.dll

Please let me know if have any questions.

Respectfully,

David C

The documentation for implementing CrmDemo.EFCodeFirst found at http://blogs.devart.com/dotconnect/enti ... qlite.html

states

You can set up a connection string for DbContext in different ways.
It can be placed into the app.config (web.config) file.
The connection string name must be identical to the DbContext descendant name.

Because that is how I always set up the connection string for EF projects, my brain checked out while reading the paragraphs that followed. Therefore, I totally missed

And now it is possible to create an instance of the provider-specific connection
and send it to the context constructor, like we did in this application.
That allows us to use the StateChange connection event to change the Oracle
current schema on its occurrence. Thus, we can connect as one user and
work on a schema owned by another user.
---------------------------------------------------------------*/
DbConnection con = new Devart.Data.Oracle.OracleConnection(
"Data Source=ora1020;User Id=scott;Password=tiger;");
con.StateChange += new StateChangeEventHandler(Connection_StateChange);

LESSONS LEARNED:

• Read the documentation while paying attention
  It is futile to make multiple changes to a connectionString that is never used and expect different results

The following appears to be the correct dlls:

cResults wrote:C:\Program Files (x86)\Devart\dotConnect\Oracle\Devart.Data.Oracle.dll & Devart.Data.dll

Thank you for letting us know that the issue is solved.