Day 14. Working with Other Providers

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This week you've learned the ins and outs of .NET Data Providers and how you can use them to connect to a data store, execute commands, retrieve rows using a data reader, and use data adapters to synchronize data. Today, we'll round out the subject of providers with a short discussion of the ODBC .NET Data Provider and a look at how and why you might implement your own provider.

To that end, in today's lesson you'll learn

• How the ODBC .NET Data Provider is architected and its key differences from the other providers we've discussed

• Why you might want to create your own .NET Data Provider

• What techniques you can use to create a .NET Data Provider

• How a lightweight provider can be implemented

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