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Installing and Configuring

This chapter describes installation and configuration requirements for Oracle Data Provider for .NET.

This chapter contains these topics:

System Requirements

Oracle Data Provider for .NET requires the following:

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 or higher.
Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003.
Access to Oracle8 Database or higher.
Oracle9i Client Release 2 (9.2) or higher and Net Services (included with ODP.NET Software).

Additional requirements:

Applications using Microsoft Enterprise Services transactions require Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server (9.2).
The following OracleCommand methods, to provide XML support, require Oracle9i XML Developer's Kit (Oracle XDK) or higher to be installed on the database. Oracle XDK can be downloaded from Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
- ExecuteStream
- ExecuteToStream
- ExecuteXmlReader
- ExecuteNonQuery
OracleXmlStream and OracleXmlType classes require Oracle9i Database Release 2 (9.2) or higher.
See Also:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework

http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xdkhome.html to download the XDK

When you install Oracle Data Provider for .NET, Oracle Universal Installer automatically registers ODP.NET with the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

The Oracle.DataAccess.dll assembly is installed in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\bin directory.

Documentation and the readme.txt are installed in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ODP.NET\doc directory.

Samples are provided in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\ODP.NET\Samples directory.