Oracle.ManagedDataAccess not resolving alias in connection string

Question

I\'m getting the following error while trying to connect to an Oracle database from a new VB.NET 4.5 application

\"ORA-00351: Network Library: Name-Value premature end o

Answer 1

Happens that I just forgot the sqlnet.ora file and the fact that there was unwanted characters in my tnsnames.ora file, so it couldn't be parsed well...