Re: Do I ALWAYS have to setup an ODBC entry when accessing Oracle from a program ?

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From: EscVector <Junk_at_webthere.com>
Date: 25 May 2007 10:47:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1180115220.678768.231420@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>

On May 25, 12:41 pm, p.sin..._at_lycos.co.uk (pete sinner) wrote:
> I would like to access/connect from a (CSharp) program to a running Oracle database.
> For that I have to specify a connectionstring with a DataSource as parameter.
>
> Do I have to pass an existing ODBC System DSN name or is it possible to pass the
> database name (here "XE") directly without declaration of an ODBC Data Source?
>
> pete

Never use ODBC...

Use ADO.Net

It would be very sad if a C# program is using ODBC, very sad.

Here's a good lnk:
http://oradim.blogspot.com/

I "know" Mark from having a few beers. Very nice guy. Received on Fri May 25 2007 - 12:47:00 CDT