Day 14. Working with Other Providers
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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