Comments on: DDEX and Firebird .NET Data Provider

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:08:03 +0000

I had already installed FirebirdClient.msi but mistakenly assumed that the installation would do everything, when in fact I still needed to manually add FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient to the GAC and then use those details (Version, Culture, PublicKeyToken) in the machine.config NOT FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools’s details.

Jiri was right, I wasn’t following the readme properly. Thanks Jiri for your contribution to the world of Firebird !

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:58:20 +0000

If registry “CodeBase” path was not correct I wouldn’t be able to choose “Firebird Data Source” from the list of Data sources.

If the machine.config file was not correct then I would get “failure has occurred while loading a type”.

I’m going to send you an email to jiri at cincura dot net… I can only hope that you will help me further.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:05:13 +0000

Oops, spoke too soon… now the dialog box displays but then disappears when I try to enter some values!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:54:41 +0000

Fixed now, I had wrong Version in machine.config

Thanks for the exercise in patience. Ciao.

By: cincura.net

cincura.net — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:06:49 +0000

Double check you exactly did the 3 steps in readme.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:28:42 +0000

Hi Mr. Cincura… can you help me diagnose my problem? I believe I have added the dll to the GAC and the Path for CodeBase is correct… but I cannot add a connectionString when trying to add a dataSource… are there any checks I can conduct to make sure I have done everything correctly?

By: ConnectString Help?!

ConnectString Help?! — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:10:28 +0000

Hi, can anyone help me with the connection string?

I have the Firebird tools installed and working and have searched hi and low for how to fix the “could not load type” message when trying to connect using the following connection string;

User=SYSDBA;Password=masterkey;Database=LIST;DataSource=MY_REMOTE_SERVER;Port=3050;Dialect=3;Charset=NONE;Role=;Connection lifetime=15;Pooling=true;MinPoolSize=0;MaxPoolSize=50;Packet Size=8192;ServerType=0

Any help greatly appreciated.

By: Norman Fisher

Norman Fisher — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:44:54 +0000

I have Firebird WI-V2.5.0.25920 Firebird 2.5 Release Candidate 2 installed on a
Windows 2008 Server. I have the same installed on my local workstation and I
can connect to a database and create a Connection and all seems to work okay.

I am able to connect to the Firebird database on the Server from my Local
machine with FlameRobin.

When I attempt to create a Connection in VS2010 (Trial … waiting for purchased
version to arrive), I get the error “Index was outside the bounds of the array.”
The following are my settings in the Add Connection Dialog Box:

Data source: Firebird Data Source (.NET Framework Data Provider for Firebird)

Data Source: HOOPLEXPRESSSVR
Data Source Port: 3050
Dialect: 3
Charset:
Database: HOOPLEXPRESSSVR:D:\Glsa1FirebirdTestDatabase\GLSA1.FDB
User: SYSDBA
Password: masterkey
Role:

Can anyone educate me as to what I am doing wrong?

By: safak

safak — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:58:19 +0000

I think I solved somethings. Now I can see Firebird at DatabaseExploerer by connecting. I can add connection string. But after OK I have an Error “Failure has occured while loading a type”. How can i solve this? Thanks.

By: safak

safak — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:06:56 +0000

I am using visual web developer express edition 2008. When i add an datasource to form i can select ProviderName as FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient. After adding GridView and running program, i can see the resultset on browser. But i can not use DatabaseExplorer at design time. And Datasorce Refresh Schema is not working at design time. How can i solve this problem? Thanks.

By: cincura.net

cincura.net — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:11:15 +0000

Yes it is.

By: safak

safak — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:55:53 +0000

is it possibe to use visual web developer express edition 2008 DDEX and Firebird .NET Data provider

By: Zorkó T

Zorkó T — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:03:38 +0000

After configuring everithing, I still got the:
“An Unexpected error occurred in .Net framework data provider for firebird. Please contact the provider vendor to resolve this problem”

Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 solved the problem.

By: Yiannis Mpourkelis

Yiannis Mpourkelis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:17:31 +0000

I am posting again the same comment because the tags does not appear for some reason.
I will remove
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I had the same problem with the add connection dialog that disappears.

The error was in machine.config
Inside the DbProviderFactories tag I had enter :

add name=”FirebirdClient Data Provider” invariant=”FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient” description=”.Net Framework Data Provider for Firebird” type=”FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.FirebirdClientFactory, FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient, Version=2.5.1.0, Culture=2.5.1.0, PublicKeyToken=3750abcc3150b00c”

I had enter by mistake Culture=2.5.1.0. The correct is: Culture=neutral . Correcting this, solved the problem

Also I had to manually enter double slash to the path for FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.dll and FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataToolsUI.dll , by opening regedit and manually changing the CodeBase key.

Example:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\DataProviders\{92421248-F044-483A-8237-74C7FBC62971}]
@=”.NET Framework Data Provider for Firebird”
“DisplayName”=”Provider_DisplayName, FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.Properties.Resources”
“ShortDisplayName”=”Provider_ShortDisplayName,FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.Properties.Resources”
“Description”=”Provider_Description, FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.Properties.Resources”
“CodeBase”=”C:\\Downloads\\firebird\\FirebirdDDEXProvider-2.0.4\\FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.dll”
“InvariantName”=”FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient”
“Technology”=”{77AB9A9D-78B9-4ba7-91AC-873F5338F1D2}”

One way to check if you have FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll installed in GAC is to browse C:\WINDOWS\assembly . There you can also view the public key token of each assembly.

By: Yiannis Mpourkelis

Yiannis Mpourkelis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:14:00 +0000

I had the same problem with the add connection dialog that disappears.

The error was in machine.config
Inside the I had enter :

I had enter by mistake Culture=2.5.1.0. The correct is: Culture=neutral . Correcting this, solved the problem

One way to check if you have FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll installed in GAC is to browse C:\WINDOWS\assembly . There you can also view the public key token of each assembly.

By: illgble

illgble — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:55:50 +0000

After I posted I saw that all my tag references had been chopped out. I’ll post again substituting all angle brackets with parens. To all people with disappearing dialog box, I wanted to share my solution because it was both frustrating and simple. Someone else posted that he had a corrupted machine.config and that was essentially my problem too, but the specifics I’m guessing are pretty common. In the (DbProviderFactories) tag of machine.config, the close tag (/DbProviderFactories) was positioned on the end of the line for the last (add) entry. I didn’t notice this and put my (add) entry on the following line which means it was no longer inside the (DbProviderFactories) tag. Just make sure your (add) entry is inside the (DbProviderFactories) section.

By: illgble

illgble — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:51:16 +0000

To all people with disappearing dialog box, I wanted to share my solution because it was both frustrating and simple. Someone else posted that he had a corrupted machine.config and that was essentially my problem too, but the specifics I’m guessing are pretty common. In the tag of machine.config, the close tag was positioned on the end of the line for the last entry. I didn’t notice this and put my entry on the following line which means it was no longer inside the tag. Just make sure your entry is inside the section.

By: cincura.net

cincura.net — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:12:34 +0000

Bad registry or GAC installation.

By: ASP.NET coder

ASP.NET coder — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:06:29 +0000

I have the same problem with disappering of dialog box. Any ideas?

By: Jens

Jens — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:44:06 +0000

Had the “Failure has occured while loading a type” error too – I looked up the registry and the Key “CodeBase”=”%PATH%\\FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.dll”at[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\DataProviders\{92421248-F044-483A-8237-74C7FBC62971}]hadn’t been added. So I just added it by hand and it worked! (%PATH%= your path to the dll)