Hi, I've read everything I could find on that topic at google at this group and tried to get the DDEX provider to work, without any success.
I use VS 2005 Team Suite SP1 on Windows XP and tried .NET Client 2.0.1.0 as well as 2.1.0.0 and DDEX 2.0.2. Two quesions that arised while testing are: 1. What are the purposes/difference of FirebirdDDEXProvider32.reg and FirebirdDDEXProviderPackageLess32.reg? 2. If I use DDEX provider for development, do I need to include this in distribution to user of my software as well? Here are my actual settings: machine.config -------------- <configSections> ... <section name="firebirdsql.data.firebirdclient" type="System.Data.Common.DbProviderConfigurationHandler, System.Data, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" /> ... </configSections> <system.data> <DbProviderFactories> ... <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=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3750abcc3150b00c" /> ... </DbProviderFactories> </system.data> FirebirdDDEXProvider32.reg ------------------------ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{8d9358ba-ccc9-4169-9fd6-a52b8aee2d50}] @="Firebird Data Package" "InprocServer32"="mscoree.dll" "Class"="FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.DataPackage" "CodeBase"="C:\\Programme\\FirebirdClient\\FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.dll" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\{8d9358ba-ccc9-4169-9fd6-a52b8aee2d50}\SatelliteDll] "DllName"="FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataToolsUI.dll" "Path"="C:\\Programme\\FirebirdClient\\" Regards and thanks for helping in advance, Mathias Wuehrmann Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider