title: How to connect to Oracle 11 database from . net
body: <p>What is the easiest way to connect a . NET web application to an Oracle 11g database?  Can EntityFramework handle this right out of the box?  Or will I need some sort or ODBC plugin from Oracle?</p>
  
  <p>*I'm running from a locked down environment, so I can't really test any of these scenarios at this time.</p>
  
  <p>I'm currently running VS2010, but I'm looking to see if they will let me run with VS2013 (no nuget).  </p>