Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Using ODAC with EF4 via WCF

Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) 11.2 Release 4 (11.2.0.3.0) with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio includes support for Entity Framework and LINQ. Implementation is simple, however when I called the query from a WCF service I got the error:

System.ArgumentException was unhandled by user code
  Message=The specified store provider cannot be found in the configuration, or is not valid.
  Source=System.Data.Entity
  StackTrace:
       at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.GetFactory(String providerString)
       at System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection.ChangeConnectionString(String newConnectionString)
       at System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext..ctor(String connectionString, String defaultContainerName)
       ...
  InnerException: System.ArgumentException
       Message=Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider.  It may not be installed.

A bit of research discovered that 32-Bit Applications are disabled by default in the IIS Application Pool. As soon as I changed Enable 32-Bit Applications to True everything worked fine.


6 comments:

  1. I wouldn't be surprised if you run into more issues. I had to use ODAC on my last assignment and it was kind of a pain to deal with.

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  2. Hi:
    Did you run into any issues when debugging through VS?

    I'm using VS 2010, Oracle 10g, ODAC (Oracle.DataAcess.dll). My solution includes a WPF client and a WCF service (which is supposed to talk to ORACLE). I run both the client app and WCF in VS 2010 (so service is run in WCFSvsHost).

    When I attempt to create a new Oracle connection, I get the following:

    The type initializer for 'Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection' threw an exception." InnerException {"The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client"} System.Exception {Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException}

    Any ideas on how to resolve this?

    Thanks,
    JohnB

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    1. Where is your WCF service being hosted? This fix is applied to an IIS app pool which must be used by the site/service to be effective.

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  3. you rock. New machine and I totally forgot about that. Thank you!!

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