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linux-packaging-mono/external/entityframework/src/EntityFramework/Infrastructure/IDbConnectionFactory.cs
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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
namespace System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure
{
using System.Data.Common;
/// <summary>
/// Implementations of this interface are used to create DbConnection objects for
/// a type of database server based on a given database name.
/// An Instance is set on the <see cref="Database" /> class to
/// cause all DbContexts created with no connection information or just a database
/// name or connection string to use a certain type of database server by default.
/// Two implementations of this interface are provided: <see cref="SqlConnectionFactory" />
/// is used to create connections to Microsoft SQL Server, including EXPRESS editions.
/// <see cref="SqlCeConnectionFactory" /> is used to create connections to Microsoft SQL
/// Server Compact Editions.
/// Other implementations for other database servers can be added as needed.
/// Note that implementations should be thread safe or immutable since they may
/// be accessed by multiple threads at the same time.
/// </summary>
public interface IDbConnectionFactory
{
/// <summary>
/// Creates a connection based on the given database name or connection string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="nameOrConnectionString"> The database name or connection string. </param>
/// <returns> An initialized DbConnection. </returns>
DbConnection CreateConnection(string nameOrConnectionString);
}
}