Visual Studio Debug Runtime Errors for OCCI C++ Application
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I'm using Visual Studio to develop a C++ program that uses OCCI to query an Oracle 11g database. It's a pretty simple program at this point, and only makes a single query, but I keep running into runtime errors. I first tried to develop this in VS2010, downloading the 11.2.0.3 OCCI files, and I got an error related to the entry point for a heap-alloc procedure not located in oci.dll. I get the impression this error might be due to the fact that my Oracle client is 11.2.0.1. 

Since I'm unable for support reasons to upgrade my client to a higher version, I decided to fall back to using Visual Studio 2005, since I read in Oracle's OCCI documentation that the vc8 versions of OCCI libs and DLLs come installed already in the 11g client. So I moved my C++/OCCI program over to VS 2005 and now I get a different debug runtime error: An error message box saying "The application failed to initialize properly", and a message from the loader in the VS Output window saying" ldrpWalkImportDescriptor() failed to probe [ORACLE CLIENT DIR]\oci\lib\msvc\vc8\oraocci11d.dll for its manifest, ntstatus 0xc0150002" I don't see a manifest file for the oraocci11d.dll, so I'm at a loss for how to resolve this. Can anyone more versed in VS setup for OCCI make a suggestion? Thanks in advance...

Sheldon