ADO.NET Driver

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The ADO.NET driver allows you to connect to InterBase servers and database from Visual Studio. This guide only covers non-inherited properties and procedures. For information on inherited properties and procedures refer to the Microsoft documentation of the parent class.

System Requirements

• ADO.NET driver requires the installation of the InterBase client library on the machine, and an InterBase server installation on the same or a different machine.
• ADO.NET requires .NET 4.52+, .NET 5.0 or .NET Standard 2.0.
• ADO.NET can run on any Visual Studio version. However, IDE integration is only available on Visual Studio 2017, 2019, and 2022.
• DDEX only works on Visual Studio 2017, 2019, or 2022.
• EntityFramework core requires netstandard 2.0 and Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 6.0.11 to run in any Visual Studio version.

Getting the Drivers

• You can get the drivers from Nuget:

  https://www.nuget.org/packages/InterBaseSql.Data.InterBaseClient/

  https://www.nuget.org/packages/InterBaseSql.EntityFrameworkCore.InterBase/

• You can take a look at the source code:

  https://github.com/Embarcadero/IB.NETDataProvider

• Download the installers:

  https://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/developer/free-download

Topics:

• Common Components
• Connection Strings
• Entity Framework
• DDEX

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