There is a new chapter in the Firebird Tutorial for .NET: Firebird Data Access Designer (DDEX) installation.

Follow these instructions to get Firebird support in the Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Standard and up):

• Browse Firebird databases in the Server Explorer
• Use "Configure Data Source" Wizard to configure SqlDataSource component
• Connection Properties editor
• etc.

No need for Visual Studio SDK!

I've been promising the Firebird Tutorial for .NET for a long time.

Now there is a first "beta" version: http://www.firebirdtutorial.net/. I decided to start with the .NET 2.0 topics - a lot of interesting things happen around FirebirdClient 2.0 and there is not much documentation about it (unless you are a fan of mailing list browsing).

The tutorial is far from complete but I would like to point out some interesting topics:

• Firebird and Visual Studio .NET 2005 screenshot guides
• DbProviderFactory generic database access
• SqlDataSource and Firebird
• Storing connection string in web.config

I also want to thank you for all the comments at the blog posts and e-mails. Although I'm not able to answer to all of them I'm trying to reply by writing new articles. The same applies to the tutorial: If you have a sample code, an interesting note, or something else to add just add a comment to this post or use the feedback e-mail: fbtutorial [at] annpoint.com.