title: Connecting to ODBC Data Source in Visual Studio
body: <p>I had this working on my old 32-bit Windows 7 machine running VS 2010 but am having trouble on my new 64-bit Windows 7 machine running VS 2015.</p>
  
  <p>All I want to do is add an Oracle ODBC connection to Visual Studio's Server Explorer. I get the following error:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fZlYC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fZlYC.png" alt="Visual Studio error with connecting to ODBC"></a></p>
  
  <p>I have successfully configured and set up the 32-bit and 64-bit ODBC utilities with ODBC drivers, both pass the "test connection". Also I have set up Oracle SQL Developer to connect to the exact same source using the same credentials and I am able to read from the server in question. Here is the successful connection attempt in the ODBC utility:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fXBUG.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fXBUG.png" alt="ODBC Success"></a></p>