Please excuse the newbie question. I worked with Interbase years ago and Firebird 1.5 briefly with Delphi a few years ago, but would now like to use the current version of Firebird with Visual Studio 2008 Professional (VS2008). I have looked through all of the resources I can find as well as information I found on various sites on the web on how to install it. What I have found is often incomplete and contradictory. Does anyone know of a clear set of instructions for setting up Firebird and VS2008 to work together? I sure would appreciate any help you could provide.

How to install DDEX Firebird Provider in Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. The latest version is 3.0.2.0, which does not prescribe the required data source (Firebird Data Source) In the Visual Studio 2017 shell. This is due to the fact that Visual Studio 2017 started to use its private registry to store its settings, instead of the configuration file. This document describes the setup of the DDEX provider for Visual Studio 2017 and Data provider for FW4.6.2. It is also possible to install the DDEX providers tied to the debug assemblies of Data providers. You may see this instruction as video on YouTube. Select «Firebird Data Source» and «LCPI.NET Framework Data Provider for OLE.

Please excuse the newbie question. I worked with Interbase years ago and Firebird 1.5 briefly with Delphi a few years ago, but would now like to use the current version of Firebird with Visual Studio 2008 Professional (VS2008). I have looked through all of the resources I can find as well as information I found on various sites on the web on how to install it. What I have found is often incomplete and contradictory.

Does anyone know of a clear set of instructions for setting up Firebird and VS2008 to work together? I sure would appreciate any help you could provide. To install the DDEX provider: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firebird Data Access Designer DDEX installation Prerequisites 1. Make sure that you have Visual Studio.NET 2005 Standard or higher edition. Express editions are not supported. Kak samomu snyatj starter ford fokus 1 8. Install the Firebird Client to the GAC 1.

Install the FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll into the GAC (although - I have successfully ran with it outside of the GAC by referencing it inside of my project and including it locally - for general purposes - I would install it to the GAC). Registry update 1. Install the.reg file into the registry for your system. Open Regedit or another registry tool and update the path in FirebirdDDEXProviderPackageLess32.reg or FirebirdDDEXProviderPackageLess64.reg registry entry. The Win7 64bit registry file should be in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Wow6432Node Microsoft VisualStudio 9.0 DataProviders 4.

You can do a search for 'FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools' in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software to speed up the process. The places where to update it is marked%Path%. This should be in 'CodeBase'. Put in the full path to the FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.dll that you have saved to a folder for this purpose. Machine.config update Add the following two sections to machine.config (located usually at C: WINDOWS Microsoft.NET Framework v2.0.50727 CONFIG machine.config and C: WINDOWS Microsoft.NET Framework64 v2.0.50727 CONFIG machine.config on 64-bit system).