Updates to ASE ADO.NET Data Provider are delivered either through an EBF/ESD or maintenance releases. This section covers issues about updating to the newer version of Data Provider. For more information on the .NET concepts that pertain to updating, read the following sections from the MSDN Library on the Microsoft Web sitehttp://msdn.microsoft.com:
.NET Framework 1.1 Deployment Guide
.NET Framework Developer's Guide (How the Runtime Locates Assemblies)
The .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) locates and binds references to assemblies, such as Data Provider, in the application program when it executes. By default, the CLR attempts to bind references to the exact version of the assembly that the application was built with. Consequently, your applications will not automatically use an updated version of the assembly just because you have deployed it; you must rebuild the application against this new version of the assembly, or the CLR needs to be directed by a configuration file to use the newer version of the assembly.
