Hello,
I've been trying to connect my ASP.NET MVC 4 project to an existing Oracle database, but to no avail.
I have no problem accessing the DB with sqldeveloper, installed on my development PC, but can't manage to from Visual Studio Express 2015 for Web.
I've read a lot of resources on how to use Entity Framework with an Oracle database, and have added Entity Framework, Oracle.ManagedDataAccess, and Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.EntityFramework to my project with NuGet. However, it doesn't seem to be enough, as I still only get the SQL Server option (and no Oracle) when I try to add a database connection to my application. Every resource I've read tells to install Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio, but it is not supported by Visual Studio Express.
What can I do to be able to access the data from my Database through my application, knowing that I can't change my IDE, and that I can only access the database to read its data, but can't modify anything (don't need to, and don't have the authorizations to).
I'm still learning, and I'm sorry if this is somehow a trivial question, but I haven't been able to answer it, despite spending a lot of time reading and trying various methods found around the web.