Developing adapter for PowerPivot

Hi experts,
I'm planning to develop a custom adapter for PowerPivot to enable connection to a third party database. Can anyone point me to the right direction as a starting point for me?
Thanks.
Regards,
Gerd

Hi Gerd,
PowerPivot for Excel can import data from a variety of sources, you can take a look at the article regarding supported data source:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg399082.aspx. Does all of data sources not meet your requirement?
It's not easy to develop a custom provider for PowerPivot for Excel, and I'm not a expert in this field. Sorry for can't provide some useful information regarding this issue, but maybe we can find out a workaround if you can elaborate your issue/requirement
with more detail.
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Elvis Long
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