Deploy Updates to the Data Provider

Review the information to deploy updates to the Data Provider and any issues related to it.

Deploy Data Provider in to the GAC

If the updated Data Provider assembly and the policy assembly are deployed into the GAC, all of the applications on this system automatically begin to use the updated Provider.

If you want to exclude a specific application from using this updated Data Provider, you can set up an application configuration file for this application that forces safe mode to override the publisher policy file.

Deploy Data Provider When Not in the GAC

If the Data Provider assembly is not installed in the GAC on this machine, copy the files that make up Data Provider into the application folder. To make the application use an updated version of Data Provider:

Create an application configuration file with the appropriate redirect.
Rebuild the application against the new Data Provider.
Deploy only the publisher policy file into the GAC. Doing this causes all references to Data Provider on this machine to use the redirect in the publisher policy file unless specifically excluded by an application.