Installation

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The ElevateDB .NET Data Provider consists of one assembly called "Elevate.ElevateDB.Data.dll". By default, this assembly is automatically configured in the global .NET 2.0 machine.config file during installation so that it's codebase can be located. The data provider is not installed into the GAC (Global Assembly Cache) by default. However, the data provider is signed with a strong name key and can be installed into the GAC, if one so desires.

Distribution

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The ElevateDB .NET Data Provider can be distributed royalty-free. If you wish to replicate the default installation process when distributing the data provider with your applications, you can do so by using the asblinst.exe and asblunins.exe utilities provided with the installation. The asblinst.exe utility will register the data provider as a .NET 2.0 data provider and configure the data provider's assembly codebase in the machine.config file. The asblunins.exe utility simply undoes the work done by the asblinst.exe utility. Both of these utilities can be found in the base installation directory for the product purchased. For example, if you purchased the ElevateDB DAC Standard product, then the default installation directory would be:

C:\Program Files\ElevateDB <Major Version> DAC-STD

Where <Major Version> is the major version number of the product, such as "2".

Both the asblinst.exe and the asblunins.exe utilities take the same parameters, and they are as follows (in order):


For example, the default installation of the data provider would use the following command-line text to call the asblinst.exe utility:

asblinst.exe
"Elevate.ElevateDB.Data"
"ElevateDB 2 .Net Data Provider"
"2.3.13.0"
"cf9bc1202c75e9e2"
"C:\Program Files\ElevateDB 2 DAC-STD\assemblies\edbprovider\Elevate.ElevateDB.Data.dll"
"C:\Windows"
"ElevateDB Data Provider"
"Elevate.ElevateDB.Data.EDBProviderFactory"