DbProviderFactories.GetFactoryClasses Method

Definition

Returns a DataTable that contains information about all installed providers that implement DbProviderFactory.

C#
public static System.Data.DataTable GetFactoryClasses();

Returns

A DataTable containing DataRow objects that contain the following data:

Column ordinal Column name Description
0 **Name** Human-readable name for the data provider.
1 **Description** Human-readable description of the data provider.
2 **InvariantName** Name that can be used programmatically to refer to the data provider.
3 **AssemblyQualifiedName** Fully qualified name of the factory class, which contains enough information to instantiate the object.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.1

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