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ProviderCollection.Add Method

Adds a provider to the collection.

Namespace:  System.Configuration.Provider
Assembly:  System.Configuration (in System.Configuration.dll)

'Declaration
Public Overridable Sub Add ( _
	provider As ProviderBase _
)

Parameters

provider
Type: System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderBase
The provider to be added.

ExceptionCondition
NotSupportedException

The collection is read-only.

ArgumentNullException

provider is Nothing.

ArgumentException

The Name of provider is Nothing.

- or -

The length of the Name of provider is less than 1.

The Add method first checks for any exceptions (as listed in the Exceptions section), and then calls the Hashtable.Add method. It passes in the object referenced by the provider parameter as well as the Name property of the provider to be used as the key in the Hashtable object.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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