SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider Required Files

The SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider code resides in a DLL for each platform.

Windows Required Files

For Windows, one of the following DLLs is required:

%IQDIR16%\V2\Assembly\V2\iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.dll
%IQDIR16%\V2\Assembly\V3.5\iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.v3.5.dll
%IQDIR16%\V2\Assembly\V4\iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.v4.0.dll

The choice of DLL depends on the version of .NET that you are targeting.

The Windows version of the provider also requires the following DLLs.

policy.16.0.iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.dll – The policy file can be used to override the provider version that the application was built with. The policy file is updated by Sybase whenever an update to the provider is released. There are also policy files for the version 3.5 provider (policy.16.0.iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.v3.5.dll) and the version 4.0 provider (policy.16.0.iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.v4.0.dll).
dblgen16.dll – This language DLL contains English (en) messages issued by the provider. It is available in many other languages including Chinese (zh), French (fr), German (de), and Japanese (jp).
dbcon16.dll – The Connect to SQL Anywhere window support code is contained in this DLL.

Visual Studio deploys the .NET Data Provider DLL (iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.dll or iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.v3.5.dll) to your device along with your program. If you are not using Visual Studio, you must copy the Data Provider DLL to the device along with your application. It can go in the same directory as your application, or in the \Windows directory.

The SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider dbdata DLL
When the SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider is first loaded by a .NET application (usually when making a database connection using SAConnection), it unpacks a DLL that contains the provider's unmanaged code. The file dbdata16.dll is placed by the provider in a subdirectory of the directory identified using the following strategy.
SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider DLL Registration
The Windows version of the SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider DLL (%IQDIR%\Assembly\V2\iAnywhere.Data.SQLAnywhere.dll) is registered in the Global Assembly Cache when you install the SAP Sybase IQ software. On Windows Mobile, you do not need to register the DLL.

Parent topic: SAP Sybase IQ .NET Data Provider Deployment