If you followed my Oracle Express installation guide, you are probably wondering how to connect to the Oracle database from inside our favorite IDE, Visual Studio. Not being one to exclude a group of developers as big as the .NET crowd, Oracle created a set of tools specifically aimed at making it e... [More]

I ran into this error today when trying to connect to Oracle from within Visual Studio Server Explorer after installing the Oracle Data Access Components, which includes the Oracle Data Providers for .NET. A cursory search of Google yielded no answers, so I was left scratching my head for a few m... [More]

As a .NET developer most of my experience in Database Land has been with Microsoft SQL Server. However, I started a new job two weeks ago and the project on which I'm working uses Oracle as a backend. It has been somewhat painful to make the switch, but I'm confident that the payoff will be worth th... [More]