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<Type Name="DbProviderFactories" FullName="System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories">
  <TypeSignature Language="C#" Value="public static class DbProviderFactories" />
  <AssemblyInfo>
    <AssemblyName>System.Data</AssemblyName>
    <AssemblyVersion>2.0.0.0</AssemblyVersion>
  </AssemblyInfo>
  <Base>
    <BaseTypeName>System.Object</BaseTypeName>
  </Base>
  <Interfaces />
  <Docs>
    <remarks>To be added.</remarks>
    <since version=".NET 2.0" />
    <summary>
      <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
      <para>Represents a set of static methods for creating one or more instances of <see cref="T:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory" /> classes.</para>
    </summary>
  </Docs>
  <Members>
    <Member MemberName="GetFactory">
      <MemberSignature Language="C#" Value="public static System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory GetFactory (System.Data.DataRow providerRow);" />
      <MemberType>Method</MemberType>
      <ReturnValue>
        <ReturnType>System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory</ReturnType>
      </ReturnValue>
      <Parameters>
        <Parameter Name="providerRow" Type="System.Data.DataRow" />
      </Parameters>
      <Docs>
        <since version=".NET 2.0" />
        <remarks>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>The <paramref name="providerRow" /> parameter corresponds to the <see cref="T:System.Data.DataRow" /> of a table returned by <see cref="M:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories.GetFactoryClasses" />.</para>
        </remarks>
        <summary>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>Returns an instance of a <see cref="T:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory" />.</para>
        </summary>
        <returns>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>An instance of a <see cref="T:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory" /> for a specified <see cref="T:System.Data.DataRow" />.</para>
        </returns>
        <param name="providerRow">
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <see cref="T:System.Data.DataRow" /> containing the provider's configuration information.</param>
      </Docs>
      <AssemblyInfo>
        <AssemblyVersion>2.0.0.0</AssemblyVersion>
      </AssemblyInfo>
    </Member>
    <Member MemberName="GetFactory">
      <MemberSignature Language="C#" Value="public static System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory GetFactory (string providerInvariantName);" />
      <MemberType>Method</MemberType>
      <ReturnValue>
        <ReturnType>System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory</ReturnType>
      </ReturnValue>
      <Parameters>
        <Parameter Name="providerInvariantName" Type="System.String" />
      </Parameters>
      <Docs>
        <since version=".NET 2.0" />
        <remarks>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>The <paramref name="providerInvariantName" /> parameter corresponds to the InvariantName column of a table returned by <see cref="M:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactories.GetFactoryClasses" />.</para>
        </remarks>
        <summary>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>Returns an instance of a <see cref="T:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory" />.</para>
        </summary>
        <returns>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>An instance of a <see cref="T:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory" /> for a specified provider name.</para>
        </returns>
        <param name="providerInvariantName">
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />Invariant name of a provider.</param>
      </Docs>
      <AssemblyInfo>
        <AssemblyVersion>2.0.0.0</AssemblyVersion>
      </AssemblyInfo>
    </Member>
    <Member MemberName="GetFactoryClasses">
      <MemberSignature Language="C#" Value="public static System.Data.DataTable GetFactoryClasses ();" />
      <MemberType>Method</MemberType>
      <ReturnValue>
        <ReturnType>System.Data.DataTable</ReturnType>
      </ReturnValue>
      <Parameters />
      <Docs>
        <remarks>To be added.</remarks>
        <since version=".NET 2.0" />
        <summary>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>Returns a <see cref="T:System.Data.DataTable" /> that contains information about all installed providers that implement <see cref="T:System.Data.Common.DbProviderFactory" />.</para>
        </summary>
        <returns>
          <attribution license="cc4" from="Microsoft" modified="false" />
          <para>Returns a <see cref="T:System.Data.DataTable" /> containing <see cref="T:System.Data.DataRow" /> objects that contain the following data. </para>
          <list type="table">
            <listheader>
              <item>
                <term>
                  <para>Column ordinal</para>
                </term>
                <description>
                  <para>Column name</para>
                </description>
                <description>
                  <para>Description</para>
                </description>
              </item>
            </listheader>
            <item>
              <term>
                <para>0</para>
              </term>
              <description>
                <para>Name</para>
              </description>
              <description>
                <para>Human-readable name for the data provider.</para>
              </description>
            </item>
            <item>
              <term>
                <para>1</para>
              </term>
              <description>
                <para>Description</para>
              </description>
              <description>
                <para>Human-readable description of the data provider.</para>
              </description>
            </item>
            <item>
              <term>
                <para>2</para>
              </term>
              <description>
                <para>InvariantName</para>
              </description>
              <description>
                <para>Name that can be used programmatically to refer to the data provider.</para>
              </description>
            </item>
            <item>
              <term>
                <para>3</para>
              </term>
              <description>
                <para>AssemblyQualifiedName</para>
              </description>
              <description>
                <para>Fully qualified name of the factory class, which contains enough information to instantiate the object.</para>
              </description>
            </item>
          </list>
        </returns>
      </Docs>
      <AssemblyInfo>
        <AssemblyVersion>2.0.0.0</AssemblyVersion>
      </AssemblyInfo>
    </Member>
  </Members>
</Type>