Contains methods to create types of objects locally or remotely, or obtain references to existing remote objects.
For a list of all members of this type, see Activator Members.
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Another way to solve this problem is to utilize the System.Activator class and a factory pattern to create the concrete provider classes as was pointed-out in Dan Fox's article "Design an Effective Data-Access Architecture".