DevOps, CI/CD and Automation

Thank you for all of your help with past answers.

We have a dot net desktop application which now uses data from an Oracle database. We can install Oracle Instant Client on each computer that uses this desktop application, but a colleague told me that maybe this isn't necessary.

He pointed to the following two articles:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228366(VS.80).aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.oracleclient(VS.80).aspx


and particularly a sentence that reads:

In C#, using the .NET Framework, you do not have to load ODBC or JDBC drivers in order to access the database. Simply set the connection string for the database connection object...

It would be easier not to have to install Oracle Instant Client on all the computers... Do any of you know if it is possible to run a Dot Net Desktop application which accesses Oracle without having an Oracle Client on the desktop computer.

We are using ODBC.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks!
:) Anne