The PowerBuilder 12 ADO interface has been extended to support ADO.NET providers. Now, you can connect at runtime to any data source that adheres to the ADO.NET 2.0 Common Provider model.
The Database Profile Setup dialog automatically detects and lists all ADO.NET providers on the system. Otherwise, this dialog is unchanged from the previous version, enabling you to define profiles for each provider in the same way.
At runtime, the user specifies the provider name defined in the namespace DBParm. If PowerBuilder fails to load the provider it returns an error.
This section describes changes to features that support connecting PowerBuilder applications to ADO.NET providers.
