Installing ODAC for .Net

I have Visual Studio.Net 2008 in my Windows XP machine. I have Oracle 10g client.

As one of my application开发者_如何学Gos uses ODAC, I need to install ODAC now. The latest version of ODAC is ODAC 11.2 Release 3 (11.2.0.2.1) with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio.

My question is, as I already have C:\Oracle\ folder if I install this ODAC again it installs one more oracle_home folder which I dont need.

Could you please suggest how how I can install it?

Thanks

No, you will need to install the version of the Oracle client that the ODAC wants. You also have to decide between 32 bit and 64 bit.

One caution if you are new to Oracle and .Net, you will have to install the oracle client on the server and that creates a lot of problems.

In case someone stills have a similar inquietude ODAC doesn't install an oracle client in the machine, Odac will use the oracle client to communicate with Database Server, so no it won't create a new oracle_home folder.