Creating Connection To Our Oracle Database?

I've been viewing the tutorial at [URL]...08-088541.html but I'm still having issues creating my connection to our Oracle database. Here's my code, which uses the same connection string as one of my VB6 programs (no password required for database--Oracle picks up windows name) :

Private Sub frmMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Create connection object
Dim OraDB As String = "Data Source=databaseneme;Persist Security Info=False"
Dim conn As New OracleConnection(OraDB)
conn.ConnectionString = OraDB
conn.Open()
Me.Show()
End Sub

I've been using .NET for all of 10 mins so the error may be painfully obvious!