Hi,

First question:

I just wonder how the concrete data provider class is registered with DNN and it can be found by "data" key. Look at the following code in DataProvider abstract base class:

        Private Shared Sub CreateProvider()
            objProvider = CType(Framework.Reflection.CreateObject("data", "MyNamespaceModules.MyModule", ""), DataProvider)
        End Sub
Where did I tell DNN which class could be reffered to as "data"?

Second question:

Why don't we instantiate the conrecte class (with reflection though) in here rather than doing something wierd? I mean I could say: System.Activator.CreateInstance("conrecte class name"). Why this simple technique is not used by DNN? what is the benefit of the other way?

Cheers,

Mehrbod