including odp.net dlls in an msi

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Hi,

I have a C# Desktop application that uses ODP.NET as the data provider. I
want to find out if there is a way to include ODP.NET dlls along with the
application MSI. Just including the Oracle.DataAccess.dll within the msi
does not work. Maybe I need to include ODP.NET within a launch condition,
but how do I do this?

Thanks.
 
Abhinav said:
Hi,

I have a C# Desktop application that uses ODP.NET as the data
provider. I want to find out if there is a way to include ODP.NET
dlls along with the application MSI. Just including the
Oracle.DataAccess.dll within the msi does not work. Maybe I need to
include ODP.NET within a launch condition, but how do I do this?
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Including the oracle dll won't be enough, the client needs to install
ODP.NET in full as you also need the full oracle client software.

Oracle uses a java-based installer, so I'm not sure you can include
that in a launch condition. You could try to run the oracle odp.net
installer in an action executed after or before the actual msi install
actions?

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Hi there,

Oracle.DataAccess.dll always takes OraOps10.dll (for 10 client)
but oracle client should be installed. One can experiment with number
of files in this client, for example some times ago I did oracle9i mini
client. I simply deleted the majority of files and left only those was
necessary, saved //HKLM/software/oracle registry branch and then
distributed this mini client with my software. It had size about 25M.
As you can see this way takes some efforts but then works fine :)

Best Regards,
Michael Milonov
http://www.snotratech.com (connected .net DataTable for Oracle
database)
 
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