Chapter 13: Developing a Custom Data Provider

Chapter 13: "Developing a Custom Data Provider"

ADO.NET is an extensible architecture that allows anyone, not just Microsoft, to create data providers for virtually any type of data source. This chapter covers how to create a data provider for pipe-delimited data files, which is a common file format, especially for Unix systems. This data provider plugs in to the ADO.NET architecture and provides all of the things you would expect from a data provider, including the ability to fill a DataSet and bind it to any GUI object.