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When a .NET DLL library depends on an ADO.NET data provider, we can either reference the ADO.NET provider in our DLL project or we can use reflection in C# to dynamically load the data provider and not reference the provider assembly. The project in which the DLL is being used may prefer using an Oracle provider, a MySQL provider or a SQL Server provider, and therefore, there is a need to dynamically use the preferred provider.
The code below implements such a requirement.
Alternate sample code that uses the Instance field to implement the above requirement
A thread and a task are related terms/concepts in programming.
The meaning of a task in a very literal sense is as explained below.
A task means a part of our code, and generally speaking, we would have many tasks to do before our code runs to completion.
We can execute a task or run a thread, and both would end up executing some part of our code. Also, note that a thread could sequentially execute many tasks if only a single thread is running.
What is a Task in a programmatic sense?
A Task is a programming object that represents a method/code in our C# or VB.NET code that can be run separately from other parts of the code. We call the Run method on a Task object to run the code that is represented by a Task.