Could not load file or assembly for Oracle DataAccess in NET

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When I try to run a simple program to access oracle I am getting this message     Could not load file or assembly  Oracle DataAccess    Version 2 111 7 20  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89b483f429c47342    or one of its dependencies  The system cannot find the file specified    I checked  windows assembly and it s in there  but it s not in GAC  gacutil -l   I can t add into GAC   gacutil -i  path   I get  unknown error    Anyone has the same experiencing

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I was facing the same issue for a couple of days then I figure out that the Oracle DataAccess is available in the references list of the project  but in the bin folder is missing  So I removed it from the references list and readded again

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in your  net project go to reference section  right click on Oracle DataAccess dll  goto properties   Change the setting to  Specific Version False   Now it will be no version conflict

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I m going to give you the answers from what I ve just went through on Windows Server 2008 R2 which is a 64 bit operating system   The application suite of libraries I was given were developed using  net 3 5 x86 with the older DLL libraries and I was stuck because I had installed the newer x64 clients from oracle   What I found was the following  Install the latest x64 client from Oracle for Windows Server 2008   I believe this would be the 2 7 0 client   When you select the installation  make sure you do custom and select the  NET libraries  Configure your tnsnames files and test your tnsping against your data source   Next  if you are running a 32 bit application  install the same version of the client for 32 bit   Also  follow the same installation routine  and select the same home   When your finished  you will find that you have a single app product with two client directories  Client1 and Client2    If you navigate to the windows assemblies directory you will find that you have a reference to the Oracle DataAccess dll  x2  with one for x86 and one for AMD64   Now  depending on if you have developers or are developing on the machine yourself  you may be ok here  however  if they are using older drivers  then you need to perform one last step   Navigate to the app name product version client 1 odp net publisher policy 2 x directory   Included in here are two policy files   use gacutil  i to install the Policy 2 111 Oracle DataAccess dll into the GAC   This will redirect legacy oracle ODP calls to the newer versions   So  if someone developed with the 10g client  it will now work with the 11 client   FYI -- Some may be installing the latest ODP NET with the 2 111 7 20   The main oracle client itself comes with 2 111 7 0    I ve not had any success with the 7 20 but have no issues with the 7 0 client

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I had the same issue    Solution was to change the platform of my current solution to x64    To do that in Visual Studio  right click solution   Configuration Manager   Active Solution Platform

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The solution is quite simple  it is all a matter of how you define things on the server   workstation in relation to your visual studio project   First check the version of the Oracle library that you are using  in your case 2 111 7 20  Next go to the Windows GAC located in your windows home- assembly folder   Scroll down to the Oracle dll  it is normally called Oracle DataAccess or Oracle Web  Find the right version of it and note down if it says x86 or AMD64   In visual studio ensure that your target platform is the same as the dll in the GAC  so if it says x86 in the GAC folder ensure that the target platform is x64 and other x64  You can set this in Visual Studio project properties  under build platform target   Also ensure that your reference  under references in your project points to this exact same version on your development computer   With this everything should work fine   What I normally do is to check the server first as it is often easier in an enterprise environment to change the version of your local dependencies  then to ask a server administrator to do an installation of a different dll

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In my case the error states that the assemly   Oracle DataAccess  Version 2 112 3 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89b483f429c47342   is missing   When I run gacutil exe  l  Oracle DataAccess  the result was   The Global Assembly Cache contains the following assemblies  Oracle DataAccess  Version 2 112 1 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89b483f429c47342  processorArchitecture x86  Number of items   1   At this moment I have just installed the oracle client  win32 11gR2 client  Then I installed oracle developer tools ODTwithODAC112030 deleloper tool  Now gacutil is saying   The Global Assembly Cache contains the following assemblies  Oracle DataAccess  Version 2 112 1 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89b483f429c47342  processorArchitecture x86 Oracle DataAccess  Version 2 112 3 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 89b483f429c47342  processorArchitecture x86  Number of items   2   Fixed  one totally missing assembly case

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Try the following  In Visual Studio  go to Tools Options    Projects and Solutions   Web Projects    Make sure that 64 bit version of IIS Express checkbox is checked off

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please register your Oracle DataAccess to GAC   raProvCfg exe  action gac  providerpath C  oracle product 11 2 0 x32 ODP NET bin 4 Oracle DataAccess dll  OraProvCfg exe  action gac  providerpath C  oracle product 11 2 0 x64 ODP NET bin 4 Oracle DataAccess dll

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you can follow this https   docs oracle com health-sciences inform-62 install index htm toc htm 214691 htm Register the Oracle DataAccess dll assembly You must register the Oracle DataAccess dll assembly to the Global Assembly Cache  GAC  for  NET version 2 and version 4   Open a command prompt as an Administrator   Navigate to  ORACLE CLIENT HOME  ODP NET bin 2 x   Execute the following command   oraprovcfg exe action gac providerpath Oracle DataAccess dll  Navigate to  ORACLE CLIENT HOME  ODP NET bin 4 x   Execute the following command  oraprovcfg exe action gac providerpath Oracle DataAccess dll

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I was compiling in x64  just use x86 and it will solve the problem

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As referred to in the first answer  there are 32 64 bit scenarios which introduce build and runtime pitfalls for developers   The solution is always to try to get right  What kind of software and OS you have installed   For a small list of scenarios with the Oracle driver and the solution  you can visit this post

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I switched over to the managed ODP NET assemblies from Oracle  I also had to purge all the files from the IIS web apps that were using the older assemblies  Now I don t get any conflicts regarding 32 vs 64 bit versions when I debug in IIS Express vs IIS  See the following article   An Easy Drive to  NET

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