About the Firebird ADO.NET Data Provider

By Carlos Guzmán Álvarez and Jiri Cincura

The .NET data provider is written in C# and provides a high-performance native implementation of the GDS32/API functions. This means that .Net developers can access Firebird databases without needing to install the Firebird client.

Weekely builds of the ADO.NET Data Provider, the ASP.NET Web Providers and the DDEX provider can be found here.

Project components:

• ADO.NET Data Provider
  • ADO.NET Standard classes implementation
  • Firebird GDS implementations for the Super Server, Classic Server, Embedded Server and Fyracle External Procedure Engine
  • Firebird Services API implementation
  • Firebird Events implementation
  • ISQL script support
• Entity Framework support
  • Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework
• ASP.NET Web Providers
  • Membership Provider
  • Profile Provider
  • Role Provider
  • Session State Store Provider
• Data Designer Extensibility (DDEX) Provider.
  • Provides integration inside Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• Fyracle External Engine implementation for the .NET CLR

Check the online API Reference documentation for v1.7

Check the online Firebird for .NET 2.0 Tutorial ( Beta ) by Dan Letecky.

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