The Enterprise Library seems to have a lot of good stuff in it. However, am
I missiing something, or is the Data Access Application Block JUST for
Oracle, SQL server & DB2. What about OLEDB for Access DBs????

Hi,

I am pretty sure you can extend it to support OleDB by implementing several
provider-specific classes (and making changes to the provider factory in
order to recognize the new provider type).

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"peterlip" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The Enterprise Library seems to have a lot of good stuff in it. However,
> am
> I missiing something, or is the Data Access Application Block JUST for
> Oracle, SQL server & DB2. What about OLEDB for Access DBs????

Microsoft at its best.

Why have they left out the most flexible provider: OleDb ?!

I am sure the Entrerprise Library DAAB can be extended to support OleDb, but
they should have provided the support for it from the get-go.

I am sure it is a great academic exercise to complete the DAAB but how much
time and costs am I really going to save introducing these entreprise library
blocks in my development if I have to extend them before using them ? I mean,
this is not some dark custom provider, it is OleDb!

Makes me wonder if this is a pattern I can expect from the rest of the
Enterprise Library Blocks.


"Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am pretty sure you can extend it to support OleDB by implementing several
> provider-specific classes (and making changes to the provider factory in
> order to recognize the new provider type).
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
> Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today!
> http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx
>
> "peterlip" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:78828DA9-C522-4263-BA90-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > The Enterprise Library seems to have a lot of good stuff in it. However,
> > am
> > I missiing something, or is the Data Access Application Block JUST for
> > Oracle, SQL server & DB2. What about OLEDB for Access DBs????
>
>

....actually I was surprized not to find a provider using Odbc, since
they added the Odbc namespace to the framework in v.1.1

Hopefulyl we will soon find tutorials on how to extend the EL so that
we can make our own.

ANyone found good samples on that yet?

I've been reading all I could find in the GotDotNet Workspace, but I
haven't found yet any 'How to extend the EL for dummies' article yet

F.O.R.