INFO: ODBC Driver Support Requirements for Use with ODBC .NET Managed Provider (321895)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Enterprise Architect Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003), Enterprise Architect Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Enterprise Developer Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003), Enterprise Developer Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2002), Academic Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2003), Academic Edition
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 3.7
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 2.0
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 2.1
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 2.5
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 3.0
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 3.5
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 3.51
  • Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 3.6
This article was previously published under Q321895

SUMMARY

The ODBC .NET managed provider is a lightweight layer between .NET applications and ODBC drivers and data sources. Because of this, the ODBC .NET managed provider requires only minimal support of ODBC 2.0 or later.

MORE INFORMATION

When you use the ODBC .NET managed provider (through the Microsoft.Data.Odbc namespace) to open a connection, the SQLGetInfo and the SQLGetFunctions functions are called.

The call to SQLGetInfo requests the ODBC version that the driver supports (InfoType = SQL_DRIVER_ODBC_VER : ODBC 2.0). Later calls are based on those functions that are supported by the ODBC driver in question, as supported through the SQLGetFunctions call.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

313480 INFO: Roadmap for .NET Data Providers

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:5/26/2005
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