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.
Data Provider consists of two core files: Sybase.Data.AseClient.dll and sybdrvado115.dll. Multiple versions of Sybase.Data.AseClient.dll can be installed in the GAC. However, the sybdrvado115.dll is not installed in the GAC and is located at runtime using the system PATH. This file is installed in the Data Provider installation directory. Sybase may change the name or version string for this DLL in upgrade releases. For example, in the 1.0 release this file was called aseado.dll, and in the 1.1 release it is called sybdrvado115.dll. When such an update is installed, do not delete the older version of this file unless Data Provider versions using this file are removed from the GAC. Otherwise, applications attempting to use the older version of the provider will fail.
