So my company is using Oracle 11g. I have the full client installed.
In C:\Apps\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\NETWORK\ADMIN they have the tnsnames.ora file, but in there they reference a file on a shared drive:
ifile=//sdmda02\tgroups\d\dba\ES_Tnsnames\TNSNAMES.ORA
When I try to use this driver in visual studio to connect to oracle, it wont parse the names out. What do I do?