The Mimer Data Provider is tightly integrated with Borland Delphi 8 and Borland C#Builder. The integration is done in two parts. The first in is to use the Mimer Data Provider in the Borland tools and the other is to access Mimer as a Borland Data Provider.

The Mimer Data Provider covers the following integration areas:

• The classes MimerDataAdapter, MimerConnection, MimerCommand, and MimerCommandBuilder objects can be used on forms. How to do this is described in Borland Tool Palette customization. When a MimerDataAdapter is dropped on a form, a wizard is automatically invoked which helps to configure the MimerDataAdapter. The wizard is also available by right-clicking on the MimerDataAdapter in the component tray.
• The functionality to generate a typed data set from the MimerDataAdapter is currently not supported.
• The TableMappings property on the MimerDataAdapter has a special dialog used to edit the mapping of names.
• The ConnectionString property of the MimerConnection object has adialog which allows the connection string to be built by filling in values in a property grid.
• Customized display of properties when a Mimer-object is present in the component tray for a form.
• The Mimer Data Provider is written in 100% managed code (this, of course, is good not only in the Borland environment!).

See Also

Borland Tool Palette customization | Accessing Mimer through the Borland Data Provider

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