Oracle Acquire Connection for ssis return null

Hi All!

I'm writing a custom component in c# for SSIS and I have a problem with AcquireConnection...

I wrote this code:

public override void AcquireConnections(object transaction)

{

if (ComponentMetaData.RuntimeConnectionCollection[0].ConnectionManager != null)

{

ConnectionManager cm = DtsConvert.ToConnectionManager(ComponentMetaData.RuntimeConnectionCollection[0].ConnectionManager);

ConnectionManagerAdoNet cmAdo = cm.InnerObject as ConnectionManagerAdoNet;

if (cmAdo == null)

throw new Exception("The ConnectionManager " + cm.Name + " is not an ADO connection.");

this.conn = cmAdo.AcquireConnection(transaction) as OracleConnection;

}

but the 'conn' is ALWAYS null...

I tried

this.conn = ((IDTSConnectionManagerDatabaseParameters90)cmAdo).GetConnectionForSchema() as OracleConnection;

too, but no result: the 'conn' is null again...

If I use oledbconnection or sqlconnection instead of oracleconnection the method works fine... I really don't understand

could you help me plz?

Using "as" will return NULL if the object can't be cast to the specified type. Is the connection manager actually an Oracle connection?|||

Yes, the connection manager is an Oracle Connection.
I use .Net Providers --> OracleClient Data Provider....

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I find the problem: I reference the class Oracle.DataAccess.Client and Oracle.DataAccess.Type and the 'conn' is null...

If I reference the System.Data.OracleClient all is right!

But I must use the Oracle.DataAccess... :-(

Has anybody use it yet?

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What is Oracle.DataAccess.Client? Is it an ADO.NET provider? If it is an ADO.NET provider you need to use an appropriate connection type that comes with it. Or you should be able to use generic connection (DbConnection) object.

HTH.

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Check the type of the object being returned, as there is some cinfusion as to what you have done here. Perhaps some code like -

object test = cmAdo.AcquireConnection(transaction);

Debug.Assert(false, test.Type.ToString());

I would also look at the ConnectionManagerType property for the connection, as that shoudl also tell you the type of ADo.Net connection you can expect back. See th example value below, showing that I used the MS ADO.Net oracl provider, and the class I know is System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection, found in the assemby System.Data.OracleClient, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089.

ADO.NETystem.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection, System.Data.OracleClient, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089

Perhaps you have not used a managed provider, but the .Net OleDb provider to connect to an Oracle OLE-DB provider. In which case your connection manager type would be -

ADO.NETystem.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection, System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089