Download Dependency Walker* and open up fbembed.dll in it. Does dependency walker give you any errors? If you're running on 64-bit windows, for example, you need to set your project type to be "x86" explicitly, because embedded firebird does not (yet!!) support 64-bit.
Actually, I'm not sure the error you're getting is 64-bit related, but at least dependency walker should give you some clue... hopefully :-) > i would have to uninstall orcas and reinstall 2005 I'm pretty sure they can be installed side-by-side (though maybe you do have to install 2005 *before* Orcas, I don't know...) * http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Dean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider