RE: Where can I get the New DB2 .NET provider?

>callingClass => 
>       wrapperClass 
>       { looks in Config for DBAccess Type } => 
>               OracleDB || iSeriesDB || SQLServerDB 

Personally, I want to remove all requirement for provider-specific code,
and I think I've just pulled that off. You can load assemblies into the
AppDomain on the fly. So the following actually works:

string sCS = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["ConnectionString"];
string sAssemblyName =
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["AssemblyName"];
string sTypeName = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["TypeName"];

IDbConnection cn = (IDbConnection)AppDomain.CurrentDomain
                        .CreateInstanceFromAndUnwrap(sAssemblyName,
sTypeName); 
cn.ConnectionString = sCS;
IDbCommand cm = cn.CreateCommand();
Blaa.. Blaa.. Blaa..

With the following in app.config:

<appSettings>
<add key="ConnectionString" value="Data Source=sol;User
ID=WaldenL;Password=palestine"/>
<add key="AssemblyName" value="C:\Program Files\IBM\Client
Access\IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries.dll"/>
<add key="TypeName" value="IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries.iDB2Connection"/>
</appSettings>

The actual application need no Using and no reference to the provider
since it's all dynamic. So all you'd have to do is change the three
lines in app.config and you'd be hooked up to another provider.

-Walden 

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