The first official build that works with the final versions of Visual Studio 2005 was released yesterday.

What's the most interesting:

The new DDEX Provider allows showing Firebird in Database Explorer/Data Connections. For installing it you should follow the ReadmeDDEX.txt file in the FirebirdClient installation directory. The installation requires modification of machine.config and adding some record to the system registry. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it working in Visual Web Developer 2005.

New features:

• New GDS implementation for the Firebird/Fyracle External Proceudre engine implementation:Added a new namespace FirebirdSql.Data.StoredProcedureEngine with two new classes (FbResultSet, FbTriggetContext).

Other changes:

• Cleanup.
• Updated to build using .NET 2.0 RTM.
• Improved connection pooling implementation.
• Changes on FbConnectionStringBuilder class to use the new FbServerType enumeration.

Download:

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