To specify the provider
in your application, you enter its ProgID, which is a unique name
that identifies a COM component. All providers support both version-dependent
and version-independent ProgIDs. You can install different versions
of the providers on the same system and write applications that use
specific versions.
ProgIDs and Examples
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Always uses the latest
version of the provider that is installed on a machine.
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Only uses a specific
version of a provider.
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"sas. provider.major version.minor version"
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To maintain compatibility
with previous releases, the special ProgID "sas.
provider.1" as a synonym for the version-independent
ProgID. For example, the last IOM provider that was installed on the
system can be identified in either of these two ways:
The IOM provider for
SAS 9.3 can be specifically identified as "sas.IOMProvider.9.3".