Connecting Visual Studio 2010 to Oracle

What is the easiest way to connect Visual Studio 2010开发者_运维问答 to an Oracle database not hosted on my local machine. Can anyone please link me to a tutorial that will help me do this as I have only ever connected using VB6 and ODBC. Or please provide me the steps involved in connecting Visual Studio 2010 to Oracle.

The easiest is probably to use ODP.net which is Oracle's official library to connect to Oracle databases (tutorials available on the linked web site)