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Error 175: The ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0'

I've checked other answers but nothing seems to work. I continuously get this error on my (new) Windows 10 machine running Visual Studio Community 2017. I've tried just about everything and now I'm thinking it has something to do with running on a Windows 10 machine as I copied the same code from my Windows 8.1 machine in which I had no issue at all with SQL Server CE 4.0.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling SQL Server Compact 4.0, reinstalling the System.Data.SqlServerCE.4.0 package, removing and re-adding the assembly...I'm at a lost as I've spent a good part of five hours trying to compile.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Well I guess I didn't try everything as I previously mentioned as I dug through some more suggestions and it turns out I was missing Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 which I downloaded and seems to have fixed the problem.
For those that stumble onto my question and answer, it can be downloaded here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30709
And thank you to whom responded to my post with their comments and suggestions. I believe ErikEJ provided the correct response.

Connect to Oracle database from asp.net core

First off I have read other posts about connecting to an Oracle database, unfortunately they could not help me. I'll describe what I have tried and hopefully someone can point me in the correct direction.
First off I tried to install ODTwithODAC122010 as many sources are saying,but this one gives me a few process exited with non zero exit code. It says it's successful but nothing seems to be changed.
Next to that I tried installing ODTforVS2017_122010.exe I have an updated Visual Studio professional. It says the installation is a success. This however does not seems to add any option like tutorials describe. With this I mean that there should be something visible in;
visual studio tools -> connect to database -> Oracle database, data provider menu should have something like Oracle for.. This doesn't show up unfortunately..
So I tried connecting to the database in my visual studio project selecting the .net framework data provider for oracle. Here three fields are asked: Server name username and password. I tried filling them in but it couldn't connect.
For server name I used: IPADDRESS:PORT/SERVICENAME
After that I gave up hope for connecting to the database through visual studio (I can connect to the database using oracle SQL developer).
Then I installing the following nuget packages:
- Oracle.ManagedDataAccess
- System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager
- System.Security.Permissions
- System.Security.Principal
And wrote a piece of code to connect to the database like:
using(OracleConnection connect = new OracleConnection(ConnectionDetails.returnConnectionString()))
{
connect.Open();
Console.WriteLine("did it work?" + connect.ServerVersion);
}
Where returnConnectionString returns:
"User Id=MYID;Password=MYPASSWORD;Data Source=IPADDRESS:PORT/SERVICENAME"
Unfortunately when I try to run this I'm facing a ExecutionContext.cs not found. This is happening at connect.open();
I'm launching this code at:
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var a = new DatabaseConnector();
a.test();
BuildWebHost(args).Run();
}
As I final word I want to make it clear that I'm using ASP.NET Core and that your suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated!

To be precise,
Right click on your project
Go to Manage NuGet packages
Search for Oracle.manageddataaccess.core . You will get Nuget package 2.12.0-beta2 version. Add it.
In the page, import as below to access oracle classes
using Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client;
This is a beta version of Oracle data access provider and PROD version is supposed to be available at the end of 3rd quarter of 2018.

There's currently no ODP.NET support for .NET Core, it was suppose to be released last year, but there's been no news more than and it's coming tweet from the ODP twitter account a couple of weeks ago.
You can make the current version work by moving your project from .netcoreapp2 to a net461 or higher target framework, but it would remove the cross platform support from your project.
In order to move your project to .net461 or any other follow this steps:
Edit your csproj file and replace the TargetFramework with net461
If you have a web project then remove the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All package and install the Microsoft.AspNetCore (which should download the others dependencies).

At the time of asking this question there was no driver Roy Sanchez answered that. A few weeks the driver got released on the oracle site and a as a nuget package.

Downgrade Xamarin.Android 4.14

I've installed Xamarin.Android 4.16 but I have a bug with date and time in this version. So I want to rollback to Xamarin.Android 4.14.
I searched the version 4.14 of Xamarin.Android for Visual Studio, but I can't find it.
Does somebody know the link to access to this version ?
I saw this post : Downgrade Xamarin.Android and I tried to change the link of the .msi with my version number but I can't find it.
Thanks for your help!

You can get several previous versions right from your Xamarin's account. Go to https://store.xamarin.com/account/my/subscription/downloads and select View all versions. Choose what you want. It may happen that required version is not there. Then, just contact support and tell them what version you need (or approximate date/month of your required version if you do not know the number).

Visual Studio crashes when trying to open up

I've installed Visual Studio 2013 a few weeks ago. I played around with making some C# applications. But today when I tried to open up Visual Studio, I got the following error message: The operation could not be completed. No such interface supported.
I have tried to run it as administrator, same problem. This is the only version that's installed on my computer. I have Win 7 64 bit. Could anyone help please?

I had this problem too on VS12. There are probably more solutions but the simplest one is to clear VisualStudio's temporary data. You can find that in C:\Users\_name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\_version. Just delete entire version folder and it will be regenerated when you open VS.

Try Repairing VS2013 and see if that helps.

I had the same problem and none of the other solutions fixed it for me. I needed to repair .Net 4.5.2 before it would work again.

I had this issue after a hard reboot (pulled plug). I repaired VS - did not help.
I also noticed that some other programs also had the same problem.
I repaired .net Framework 4.5.2 - after that it seems fine...

Problem using Firebird with VS2008 (C#)

Good morning, i'm trying to import the DLL of the Firebird.Client to use with the VS2008 but everytime i add the reference to the dll i get the message:
Warning 1 The referenced component 'FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient' could not be found.
I've tryied to add the reference path to the project, but it doesn't solve the problem.
Is there anything else i can do?
Thanks in advance
Link to where i've download cliente:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.6.5/NETProvider-2.6.5.zip/download

I ran into this same problem when I received a new Windows 7 workstation -- it seems to affect Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7. Everything worked fine in VS2008 on my old Windows XP machine. Unfortunately the ultimate solution for me was to migrate everything to Visual Studio 2010.

Found the problem, to use Firebird with VS2008 i had to use a older version of the Firebird client, that worked just fine. Awsome? Not that much, but if you have no choice like me you can try it too, just use:
Version 2.5.2 for .NET 3.5/2.0 with Entity Framework support