Firebird Development: .NET Providers

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.

Weekly 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

Latest Release

ADO.NET provider for Firebird - 2.6.0

This version contains various bug fixes as well as new features and improvements. And of course support for some of new Firebird server features. Highlights, support for

.NET 4 Client Profile
Entity Framework 4
Command cancellation
UTF8 filenames.

All changes can be found at our Tracker pages.

Thanks to all who helped improving and hunting issues.

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Jiri Cincura
18 Nov 2010

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