Comments on: C# .NET Programming Tip: Oracle Connection Revised http://thewayofcoding.com/2008/03/c-net-programming-tip-oracle-connection-revised/ Tue, 18 May 2010 20:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Scott http://thewayofcoding.com/2008/03/c-net-programming-tip-oracle-connection-revised/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 Scott Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:51:45 +0000 http://localhost/?p=26#comment-1000 Well, I've only distributed my apps through clickonce deployment, so I can't really say what the issue is at this point. I'm just guessing here, but when visual studio is used to deploy the application, it includes a manifest file, which tells where and what is included in the application. So I'm not sure you can just copy the DLLS and the program executable into a directory without all of the support files as well. Also, when I include the oracle DLLs in the project itself, I tell it to copy the oracle files into the EXE directory (the application then knows they exist). Well, I’ve only distributed my apps through clickonce deployment, so I can’t really say what the issue is at this point.

I’m just guessing here, but when visual studio is used to deploy the application, it includes a manifest file, which tells where and what is included in the application. So I’m not sure you can just copy the DLLS and the program executable into a directory without all of the support files as well. Also, when I include the oracle DLLs in the project itself, I tell it to copy the oracle files into the EXE directory (the application then knows they exist).

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