Reputation: 2016
What drivers should I use? Are they free?
How should the connectionstring look like?
Thanks
Upvotes: 1
Views: 974
Reputation: 8563
With regard to drivers, Interbase 6 is the same as Firebird 1.0. You can get ADO.net drivers here, and yes, they are free:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/dotnetfirebird/
Note, that Interbase 6 uses a network protocol that transmits many more bytes than necessary, and makes a huge number of network connections for even simple things. It is highly recommended to upgrade to a newer version, like Firebird 2.1, which is backwards compatible, but where the network protocol works much better, and faster.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 6808
you'd better not use Interbase 6 which is very old.
You can use newest version of Interbase of the fork of Interbase open source named Firebird
Here you can can some connectionstring for firebird
Upvotes: 0