I have to run a stored procedure in Oracle. I will be on our client's network. I am writing an ASP.NET page in C# to do this.

I've never used Oracle before, only Microsoft data sources. So, this article is a little bit confusing to me: http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/cshar...p-Tutorial.htm

How do I know if I want to connect to Oracle using System.Data.OracleClient Data Provider or connect to Oracle using Oracle.DataAccess.Client Data Provider?

What the client has given me is: the database name, an id and password, a package name (what's that?) and a "package procedure definition" (I'm assuming that's like a stored procedure in SQL Server) and its second parameter is curData out T_CURSOR - what does that mean I am getting back? What do I pass in?

The hard part about this development is I have visual studio on my PC, but I have to run my page on a laptop they have sent me which connects to their network. So I can't quickly make code changes or see what I am getting back. I don't have the tools to make an Oracle DB locally for testing. I have to build a DLL, run the page, and just write something out to let me know if it's working. Any ideas how to best do this?

Thanks if you can help. I will keep googling for tutorials...