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Add SqlClient agent identifier to USERAGENT payload
cheenamalhotra Sep 2, 2026
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Address PR review feedback
cheenamalhotra Sep 2, 2026
171d890
Make SqlClientAgent CLS-compliant and cover config failures
cheenamalhotra Sep 2, 2026
1d296c9
Lock SqlClientAgent underlying type and drop stale attribute
cheenamalhotra Sep 2, 2026
0c2bfcc
Inline the agent registration sample
cheenamalhotra Sep 2, 2026
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Tests | Stop CancelAndDisposePreparedCommand deadlocking on the catalog
cheenamalhotra Sep 2, 2026
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Report agent registration outcome and stop using the catalog in cance…
cheenamalhotra Sep 3, 2026
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Report application identity in USERAGENT payload V2
cheenamalhotra Sep 3, 2026
1510d6f
Preserve application identity across clones, add sqlpackage
cheenamalhotra Sep 3, 2026
d849cf4
Reject identity changes after login, propagate to discovery login
cheenamalhotra Sep 3, 2026
095d84e
Document identity exception and trust boundary
cheenamalhotra Sep 3, 2026
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Leave localized resx files to the OneLocBuild pipeline
cheenamalhotra Sep 4, 2026
4c29388
Refine USERAGENT application API
cheenamalhotra Sep 9, 2026
9bfbc07
Remove unused using directive for System.Diagnostics
cheenamalhotra Sep 9, 2026
f087c29
Rename application property and complete review coverage
cheenamalhotra Sep 10, 2026
597e75a
Rename SqlClientApp to SqlClientApplication
cheenamalhotra Sep 10, 2026
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Rename application enum to RegisteredApplication
cheenamalhotra Sep 10, 2026
05516e0
Add registered application state and pooling tests
cheenamalhotra Sep 10, 2026
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Make registered application assignment atomic
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147 changes: 147 additions & 0 deletions doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml
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<docs>
<members name="RegisteredApplication">
<RegisteredApplication>
<summary>
Specifies the known application identifiers that Microsoft.Data.SqlClient reports for user agent telemetry.
</summary>
<remarks>
<para>
Production applications that meet the bar are welcome to reserve an identifier here.
</para>
<para>
Identifier reservations are as follows:
</para>
<list type="bullet">
<item>
<description>0x0001-0x7FFF: Microsoft-defined large-scale applications.</description>
</item>
<item>
<description>0x8000-0xBFFF: Reserved for small-scale use.</description>
</item>
<item>
<description>0xC000-0xFFFF: Public and developer use.</description>
</item>
</list>
<para>
An unregistered identifier may still be reported by casting a value to this type.
</para>
</remarks>
</RegisteredApplication>
<Unknown>
<summary>
No application identity is reported. This is the default.
</summary>
<value>
0
</value>
</Unknown>
<EntityFrameworkCore>
<summary>
The Microsoft Entity Framework Core SQL Server provider.
</summary>
<value>
1
</value>
</EntityFrameworkCore>
<SemanticKernel>
<summary>
Microsoft Semantic Kernel.
</summary>
<value>
2
</value>
</SemanticKernel>
<ManagementStudio>
<summary>
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
</summary>
<value>
3
</value>
</ManagementStudio>
<SqlManagementObjects>
<summary>
Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects.
</summary>
<value>
4
</value>
</SqlManagementObjects>
<DataTierApplicationFramework>
<summary>
Microsoft SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework.
</summary>
<value>
5
</value>
</DataTierApplicationFramework>
<SqlToolsService>
<summary>
Microsoft SQL Tools Service.
</summary>
<value>
6
</value>
</SqlToolsService>
<AspNetCoreDistributedSqlServerCache>
<summary>
Microsoft ASP.NET Core distributed SQL Server cache.
</summary>
<value>
7
</value>
</AspNetCoreDistributedSqlServerCache>
<EntityFramework>
<summary>
Microsoft Entity Framework 6 SQL Server provider.
</summary>
<value>
8
</value>
</EntityFramework>
<AzureFunctionsSqlExtension>
<summary>
Microsoft Azure Functions SQL extension.
</summary>
<value>
9
</value>
</AzureFunctionsSqlExtension>
<OrleansAdoNet>
<summary>
Microsoft Orleans ADO.NET providers.
</summary>
<value>
10
</value>
</OrleansAdoNet>
<DurableTaskSqlServer>
<summary>
Microsoft Durable Task SQL Server provider.
</summary>
<value>
11
</value>
</DurableTaskSqlServer>
<SqlPackage>
<summary>
The <c>sqlpackage</c> command-line tool.
</summary>
<value>
12
</value>
<remarks>
<c>sqlpackage</c> is built on the Data-Tier Application Framework, but reports its own identifier so that
command-line use can be told apart from other callers of that framework.
</remarks>
</SqlPackage>
<DataApiBuilder>
<summary>
Microsoft Data API builder.
</summary>
<value>
13
</value>
</DataApiBuilder>
</members>
</docs>
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</para>
</remarks>
</System.ICloneable.Clone>
<RegisteredApplication>
<summary>
Gets or sets the middleware application identity reported to the server for this connection.
</summary>
<value>
A <see cref="T:Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.RegisteredApplication" /> value. The default is
<see cref="F:Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.RegisteredApplication.Unknown" />.
</value>
<example>
<para>
Set the identity before opening the connection:
</para>
<code language="c#">
using Microsoft.Data.SqlClient;

using SqlConnection connection = new(connectionString)
{
RegisteredApplication = RegisteredApplication.EntityFrameworkCore
};
connection.Open();
</code>
</example>
<exception cref="T:System.InvalidOperationException">
The connection is opening or open. The identity is reported during login, so it must be set beforehand.
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</exception>
<remarks>
<para>
This API is intended for registered applications that reserve an identifier in
<see cref="T:Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.RegisteredApplication" />. An unregistered identifier may be reported by
casting a value to that type.
</para>
<para>
This value is telemetry. It is supplied entirely by the client, which may report any identifier in range,
so it is not an authenticated identity and must not be used for authorization or any other security
decision.
</para>
<para>
The identity is sent once, during login, so it must be set before the connection is opened.
</para>
<para>
When pooling is enabled the value is reported only while establishing a new physical connection, and it is
not part of the pool key. A connection served from the pool therefore reports the identity of whichever
connection caused that physical connection to be created, and physical connections opened in the background
to satisfy <c>Min Pool Size</c> report
<see cref="F:Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.RegisteredApplication.Unknown" />. Applications that mix identities over one
connection string should treat this telemetry as indicative rather than exact, or disable pooling where an
exact attribution is required.
</para>
</remarks>
</RegisteredApplication>
<WorkstationId>
<summary>
Gets a string that identifies the database client.
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<NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS0618</NoWarn>
</PropertyGroup>

<!-- CLS Compliance ================================================== -->
<ItemGroup>
<AssemblyAttribute Include="System.CLSCompliantAttribute">
<_Parameter1>true</_Parameter1>
</AssemblyAttribute>
</ItemGroup>

<!-- Versioning ====================================================== -->
<!-- Import our Versions.props unless it was already imported (e.g. by Directory.Packages.props
in Package mode). The guard property inside Versions.props makes this a no-op on the
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public void LogInfo(string type, string method, string message) { }
}

/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/RegisteredApplication/*' />
[System.CLSCompliantAttribute(false)]

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Since this type is opt-in telemetry for existing apps, I don't think the lack of CLS compliance is a problem. Any existing apps relying on CLS compliance will need to take explicit steps to use this enum and the new SqlConnection.SqlClientApp property - I'm fine with that.

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Agreed. The enum and property remain explicitly non-CLS-compliant.

public enum RegisteredApplication : ushort
{
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/Unknown/*' />
Unknown = 0,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/EntityFrameworkCore/*' />
EntityFrameworkCore = 1,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SemanticKernel/*' />
SemanticKernel = 2,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/ManagementStudio/*' />
ManagementStudio = 3,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SqlManagementObjects/*' />
SqlManagementObjects = 4,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/DataTierApplicationFramework/*' />
DataTierApplicationFramework = 5,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SqlToolsService/*' />
SqlToolsService = 6,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/AspNetCoreDistributedSqlServerCache/*' />
AspNetCoreDistributedSqlServerCache = 7,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/EntityFramework/*' />
EntityFramework = 8,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/AzureFunctionsSqlExtension/*' />
AzureFunctionsSqlExtension = 9,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/OrleansAdoNet/*' />
OrleansAdoNet = 10,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/DurableTaskSqlServer/*' />
DurableTaskSqlServer = 11,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SqlPackage/*' />
SqlPackage = 12,
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/DataApiBuilder/*' />
DataApiBuilder = 13
}

/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/SqlClientMetaDataCollectionNames.xml' path='docs/members[@name="SqlClientMetaDataCollectionNames"]/SqlClientMetaDataCollectionNames/*'/>
public static class SqlClientMetaDataCollectionNames
{
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public SqlConnection(string connectionString) { }
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/SqlConnection.xml' path='docs/members[@name="SqlConnection"]/ctorConnectionStringCredential/*'/>
public SqlConnection(string connectionString, Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlCredential credential) { }
/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/SqlConnection.xml' path='docs/members[@name="SqlConnection"]/RegisteredApplication/*' />
[System.CLSCompliantAttribute(false)]
public Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.RegisteredApplication RegisteredApplication { get { throw null; } set { } }

/// <include file='../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/SqlConnection.xml' path='docs/members[@name="SqlConnection"]/AccessToken/*'/>
[System.ComponentModel.BrowsableAttribute(false)]
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private bool _sessionRecoveryRequested;

/// <summary>
/// The middleware application identity of the <see cref="SqlConnection"/> that caused
/// this physical connection to be created. Reported once, at login.
/// </summary>
private readonly RegisteredApplication _registeredApplication;

private int _threadIdOwningParserLock = -1;

// @TODO: Rename to indicate this has to do with routing
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IDbConnectionPool pool = null,
Func<SqlAuthenticationParameters, CancellationToken, Task<SqlAuthenticationToken>> accessTokenCallback = null,
SspiContextProvider sspiContextProvider = null,
ISqlClientMetrics metrics = null)
ISqlClientMetrics metrics = null,
RegisteredApplication registeredApplication = RegisteredApplication.Unknown)
: base(metrics)
{
Debug.Assert(connectionOptions is not null, "null connectionOptions");

ConnectionOptions = connectionOptions;
_registeredApplication = registeredApplication;

#if DEBUG
if (reconnectSessionData != null)
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login.password = ConnectionOptions.Password;
login.applicationName = ConnectionOptions.ApplicationName;
login.language = _currentLanguage;
login.appId = _registeredApplication;

if (!login.userInstance)
{
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

#nullable enable

namespace Microsoft.Data.SqlClient;

/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/RegisteredApplication/*' />
[System.CLSCompliant(false)]
public enum RegisteredApplication : ushort
{
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/Unknown/*' />
Unknown = 0,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/EntityFrameworkCore/*' />
EntityFrameworkCore = 1,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SemanticKernel/*' />
SemanticKernel = 2,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/ManagementStudio/*' />
ManagementStudio = 3,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SqlManagementObjects/*' />
SqlManagementObjects = 4,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/DataTierApplicationFramework/*' />
DataTierApplicationFramework = 5,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SqlToolsService/*' />
SqlToolsService = 6,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/AspNetCoreDistributedSqlServerCache/*' />
AspNetCoreDistributedSqlServerCache = 7,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/EntityFramework/*' />
EntityFramework = 8,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/AzureFunctionsSqlExtension/*' />
AzureFunctionsSqlExtension = 9,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/OrleansAdoNet/*' />
OrleansAdoNet = 10,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/DurableTaskSqlServer/*' />
DurableTaskSqlServer = 11,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/SqlPackage/*' />
SqlPackage = 12,
/// <include file='../../../../../../doc/snippets/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/RegisteredApplication.xml' path='docs/members[@name="RegisteredApplication"]/DataApiBuilder/*' />
DataApiBuilder = 13
}
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