Unable to find the requested Net Framework Data Provider in Visual Studio 2010 Professional

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Why am I getting  Unable to find the requested  Net Framework Data Provider  when trying to setup a new datasource in Visual Studio 2010 Professional   My stats    Windows 7 64bit 16gig RAM Visual Studio 2010 Professional SQL Server 2008   server A  full admin rights  SQL Server 2008   server B  full admin rights    I have started a test ASP NET application and when I try to add a new data source  I get      Unable to find the requested  Net Framework Data Provider   It may not be installed    I have  NET 4 installed     When I build the connection and click  Test Connection  it tests successful   SQL Server Management Studio connects just fine and I have verified the credentials on everything

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I had this problem with version 6 7 4 and resolved it by installing version 6 5 6   My setup is Win 2008 R2 SP1 Data Center edition  SQL Server 2008 R2 with Business Intelligence Development Studio  VS2008   Very basic install   When I was installing 6 7 4  i could not even see the MySQL provider as a choice  However  when i looked into the machine config file  I saw references for MySQL role provider etc  but no entry was added in the

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It works for me thank you  I had this issue when I installed  Net Framework 4 7 1  somehow DbProviderFactories settings under System Data in machine config got wiped-out  It started working after adding the necessary configuration settings as shown below DataProviderFactories   lt system data gt       lt DbProviderFactories gt         lt add name  Oracle Data Provider for  NET  invariant  Oracle DataAccess Client  description  Oracle Data Provider for  NET  type  Oracle DataAccess Client OracleClientFactory  Oracle DataAccess  Version 4 112 3 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89b483f429c47342   gt         lt add name  Microsoft SQL Server Compact Data Provider 4 0  invariant  System Data SqlServerCe 4 0  description   NET Framework Data Provider for Microsoft SQL Server Compact  type  System Data SqlServerCe SqlCeProviderFactory  System Data SqlServerCe  Version 4 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89845dcd8080cc91   gt       lt  DbProviderFactories gt   lt  system data gt

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its solved  Use nuget and search for the  ODP NET  Managed Driver  invariant  Oracle ManagedDataAccess Client    and install the package  it will resolve the issue for me

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In my case the Data provider entry for MySQL was  simply  missing in the machine config file described above  though I had installed the MySQL connector properly    lt add name  MySQL Data Provider  invariant  MySql Data MySqlClient  description   Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL  type  MySql Data MySqlClient MySqlClientFactory  MySql Data  Version 6 5 4 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken c5687fc88969c44d    gt    Don t forget to put the right Version of your MySQL on the Entry

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I thought my issue was due to my machine config per answers I found online but the culprit turned out to be in the project s web config that was clearing out the DbProviderFactories    lt system data gt     lt DbProviderFactories gt       lt clear   gt                lt  DbProviderFactories gt   lt  system data gt

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I have seen reports of people having and additional  self terminating  node in the machine config file  Removing it resolved their issue  machine config is found in  Windows Microsoft net Framework vXXXX Config  You could have a multitude of config files based on how many versions of the framework are installed  including 32 and 64 bit variants    lt system data gt       lt DbProviderFactories gt           lt add name  Odbc Data Provider  invariant  System Data Odbc        gt           lt add name  OleDb Data Provider  invariant  System Data OleDb        gt           lt add name  OracleClient Data Provider  invariant  System Data       gt           lt add name  SqlClient Data Provider  invariant  System Data       gt           lt add name  IBM DB2 for i  NET Provider  invariant  IBM Data       gt           lt add name  Microsoft SQL Server Compact Data Provider        gt            lt  DbProviderFactories gt        lt DbProviderFactories  gt     remove this one   lt  system data gt

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i had the same problem in visual studio 2019 and it resolved by searching in the searchbar inside visual studio  manage NuGet packages  gt  oracle ManagedDataAccess  first result  install it  and then it should works

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I like the other suggestions but I would rather not update the machine config for a single application  I suggest that you just add it to the web config   app config  Here is what I needed to use the MySql Connector NET that I  bin  deployed    lt system data gt       lt DbProviderFactories  gt           lt add name  MySQL Data Provider  invariant  MySql Data MySqlClient  description   Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL  type  MySql Data MySqlClient MySqlClientFactory  MySql Data  Version 6 6 4 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken c5687fc88969c44d    gt       lt  DbProviderFactories gt   lt  system data gt

[asp.net] Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider in Visual Studio 2010 Professional

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