ODP.NET

Hello, can some one, anyone please help me. I have a simple VS 2005 C# application that connects to oracle. I've set it up to take the username, password and tnsname as arguments. I am using Client 9i, version 9.2.0.401 of Oracle.DataAccess.dll, and .NET Framework 2.0.

It works fine when I run it from VS 2005, I have also set up a test machine w/o VS 2005 and ran my install package and it runs fine. I sent it to one of my co-workers and when he tries it the OracleConnection obect fails with the error.

"Input string was not in a correct format"

strange in that it is not an ORA error, just the identifed text!?

Here is the code:
## begin code
OracleConnection dbc = new OracleConnection();
string sConnectString = "User Id=" + username.ToString() + ";Password=" + password.ToString() + ";Data Source=" + tnsname.ToString();
dbc.ConnectionString = sConnectString.ToString();
MessageBox.Show("Attempting to Connect to Oracle");
dbc.Open();
MessageBox.Show("Connected to Oracle: " + dbc.ServerVersion);

## end code

Pretty basic, what could be going on?

Since this only happens with an installation, I put in the message boxes to verify exactly where it chokes. I get the first message box, then an error with the identified text. I've seen a number of posts regarding input string format problems, but not a one dealing with OracleConnection.Open(). I added all the ToString() calls just to make sure everything was a string but it did not change the end result.

Anyone? Thanks In advance!

Eric S.