I had just started using aps.net 2.0 and was impressed with all the
tools available.

But I had a question which I feel is rather dumb.

Yes I can access my oracle database with inline code but was very pleased with the vb environment of the aspx.vb page behind my aspx page. So I thought this is great I will just code my database access on the aspx.vb in say a button click event. Well not so easy, for I cannot import system.data.oracleclient. Oh I can do that on the aspx page but I would like to do that on the aspx.vb page.

I apologize if my question elicits a very simple answer.

Yep, the answer was extremely simple. I guess I needed the 4.5 hours sleep I got last night. I remembered to add the system.data.oracle client to the references for the project.

Oh well.