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This comes into play if you have more than one client installed on the machine so this could be part of your issue. If so, the simple thing to do is use the dllPath configuration variable in your config:
Now, to answer your question directly - I don't believe Oracle supports mismatching Oracle.DataAccess.dll with it's client (at least not backwards). Your best bet is either to install ODP.net with your app install - the xcopy version is the smallest and contains the "instant client" Or, you should be thinking about minimum system requirements - ie. The system must have at least version X of odp.net installed. You could then compile against that minimum dll and rely on publisher policy redirection when a target system has a NEWER version of the client.
Of course this also prompts me to ask about architecture. Do you plan on prompting the user for their Oracle account? If not, you have to be careful on how you protect the shared service account your application will use. You may be better off making calls to a webservice that makes the oracle calls on the clients behalf - giving you another security layer and simplifying your client deployment.
First of all clarification: You have an Oracle Database Server (you called it "back end oracle database") and an Oracle Client (no matter if this is installed on an application server, from Oracle point of view, it is the client)
The version of ODP.NET (Oracle Data Provider for .NET, i.e. the Oracle.DataAccess.dll and some more files) are defined by the Oracle Client. You can use almost every ODP.NET version to connect to every Oracle database version - more or less.
The error message "The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client" could also mean there is no ODP.NET provider installed at all. In this case the error message is indeed a bit misleading. So, first check if ODP.NET is installed at all, it is not included in standard Oracle Instant Client installation.
9.? and 10.? refers to version of Oracle, 1.x, 2.0 and 4.0 refers to version of Microsoft .NET Framwork (strange numbering, but that's how it is). Version 9.? and 10.? are very old, I don't think it makes any sense to use them. 1.x was supported until Oracle client version 11.1.
Version 1.x and 2.0 are not compatible to each other, i.e. perhpaps you have to provide two different setup files of your application to your customer and the customer has to select the correct one depending on his local oracle client installation.
Apparently it's one dependency, under 10 MB. It should make deploying your application to different systems a lot easier compared to the ODP.NET versions that depends on Oracle (instant) Client. It should also avoid you having to care about any installed Oracle Client.
However, they do mention it works on "the latest version of the .NET Framework 4.5.1", so from what I understand you need to upgrade your application to 4.5.1, but maybe that is only if you want to use the certain features (like the Entity Framework support).
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