ODP.NET: Managed Driver

Installation

The ODP.NET Managed Driver can be installed with

Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)
XCopy
NuGet
Windows Installer

XCopy

In order to install ODP.NET Managed Driver with XCopy, the respective zip file needs to be downloaded from OTN (named ODP.NET_Managed_ODAC122cR1.zip as of 2019-12-10).

This zip file contains a readme.htm with instructions on how to install the Managed Driver. It seems to boil down to the following command:

install_odpm.bat  %ORACLE_HOME%   platform  [ machine-wide-configuration ]

platform is one of

x86
x64
both

The optional argument machine-wide-configuration is either

true
false

XCopy installation possibly requires administrator privileges.

Set of files

The ODP.NET, Managed Driver consists of a few files only:

`Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll`	The ADO.NET provider
`Resources\_lang_\Oracle.ManangedDataAccess.resources.dll`
`OraProvCfg.exe`	Configuring tool for ODP.NET drivers (managed and unmanaged).
`configure.bat`	Batch file to put ODP.NET Managed Drivers into the GAC and add entries to `machine.config`
`unconfigure.bat`	Undo changes made with `configure.bat`
`tnsnames.ora`
`sqlnet.ora`
`ConfigSchema.xsd`
`Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.EntityFramework.dll`	Assembly for Code First and Entity Framework 6 or higher
`Oracle.ManagedDataAccessIOP.dll` (one version for `x86` and another one for `x64`)	Support for Kerberos

Assemblies / .NET namespaces

The Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll assembly provides two namespaces:

No Kerberos support for ODP.NET Core