The assemblies shipped by the provider contain standard ADO.NET components, including components for creating ASP.NET applications and SSRS reports, from code and from the designer.

The lib folder in the installation directory has .NET 3.5 assemblies. The 4.0 subfolder contains .NET 4.0 assemblies that have been compiled with the 4.0 compiler. These will not work with older versions of the .NET Framework. To use the Entity Framework, you must compile with .NET 4.0. Finally, the netstandard2.0 subfolder contains the System.Data.CompositeClient assembly compiled with .NET Standard 2.0.

 

The following sections list the main assemblies and assemblies you need to integrate with Visual Studio designers and other tools.

The ADO.NET Provider for TIBCO(R) Data Virtualization ships the following ADO.NET assemblies:

The provider supports Entity Framework with the following assembly:

See Using ADO.NET (Entity Framework) for information on creating Entity Framework data models with the provider.

The provider supports EF Core with the following assembly:

See Using ADO.NET (Entity Framework Core) for information on creating EF Core data models with the provider.

The provider supports SSRS 2005 and above; the assemblies for each SSRS version are located in the SSRS subfolder in the installation folder. For example:

See Using ADO.NET (SSRS) for a guide to deploying the provider to your SSRS server and creating a report.