[c#] Why would Oracle.ManagedDataAccess not work when Oracle.DataAccess does?

I had the similar issue......to solve this what I did was to uninstall the ODP. Net and re-install in the same directory as oracle server......with server option you will notice that most of the products are already installed (while 12c database installation) so just select the other features and finally finish the installation....

Please note that this workaround works only if you have installed 12c on the same machine i.e. on your laptop............

If your database is located on the server machine other than your laptop then please select client option and not the server and then include TNS_ADMIN in your app.config and do not forget to specify the version...

since my installation is on my laptop so my App.config is as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <startup> 
        <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
    </startup>
</configuration>


 /////////the below code is a sample from oracle company////////////////


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Common;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client;

///copy these lines in a button click event 
    string constr = "User Id=system; Password=manager; Data Source=orcl;";
// Click here and then press F9 to insert a breakpoint
        DbProviderFactory factory =
    DbProviderFactories.GetFactory("Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client");
            using (DbConnection conn = factory.CreateConnection())
            {
                conn.ConnectionString = constr;
                try
                {
                    conn.Open();
                    OracleCommand cmd = (OracleCommand)factory.CreateCommand();
                    cmd.Connection = (OracleConnection)conn;

//to gain access to ROWIDs of the table
//cmd.AddRowid = true;
                    cmd.CommandText = "select * from all_users";

                    OracleDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

                    int visFC = reader.VisibleFieldCount; //Results in 2
                    int hidFC = reader.HiddenFieldCount;  // Results in 1

                    MessageBox.Show(" Visible field count: " + visFC);

                    MessageBox.Show(" Hidden field count: " + hidFC);


                    reader.Dispose();
                    cmd.Dispose();
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
                      MessageBox.Show(ex.StackTrace);
                }
            }