Moving installation from XP (32 bit) to Server 2008 (64 bit)
852174Apr 1 2011 — edited Jun 7 2011Hi,
we have sucessfully installed Oracle Entity Framework (using ODAC 11.2 Release 3 (11.2.0.2.1) with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio) on our developer machines (Windows XP 32 bit).
However, after having installed the framework on a server already running Oracle 11 (Windows server 2008 64 bit) using the client install (using ODAC 11.2 Release 3 (11.2.0.2.1)), the following error occur after trying a simple console application with the Oracle Entity Framework bindings:
"Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: The specified store provider cannot be found in the configuration, or is
not valid. ---> System.ArgumentException: Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be ins
alled. at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.GetFactory(String providerString)"
The application is compiled with Any CPU build, and .NET 4.0 is installed on this server. Running a "vanilla" WPF application is no problem, so ther must be something the EF is missing.
Anyone got an idea what might be missing on the server (I'm thinking maybe registry keys, paths, DLL's etc).
Regards,
Rolf C Stadheim