Helen, i looked it up on the web also and saw all the problems it's created. a download the dll from a site and now fbembed.dll is loading. thanks everyone for taking the time to help me with this.
i have one more question (for now). what is the best way to create an embedded database? isql? is there an ide? thanks, bob k. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Borrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "For users and developers of the Firebird .NET providers" <firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Visual C#andFirebird embeddeddatabase connection failure > At 04:42 AM 21/07/2007, bob k. wrote: >>i ran dependency walker (terrific piece of software), and corrected all >>the >>descrepencies except one. i don't have dwmapi.dll on my system. should >>this >>have come with the firebird install? > > Definitely not. dwmapi.dll is a Vista-only library - it is the > desktop window manager API and is not a redistributable. Something > in your dependency chain is wrongly making a load-time link to it. A > not-very-exhaustive Google search reveals that it's a > commonly-reported bug on systems that have IE7 installed. When they > uninstall IE7 the problem goes away... > > Helen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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