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Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Installing for Use with Visual Studio 2008Professional
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From: Rick <ric...@ho...> - 2011-11-04 00:04:58
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To install the DDEX provider: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firebird Data Access Designer DDEX installation Prerequisites 1. Make sure that you have Visual Studio .NET 2005 Standard or higher edition. 2. Express editions are not supported. Install the Firebird Client to the GAC 1. Install the FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.dll into the GAC (although - I have successfully ran with it outside of the GAC by referencing it inside of my project and including it locally - for general purposes - I would install it to the GAC). Registry update 1. Install the .reg file into the registry for your system. 2. Open Regedit or another registry tool and update the path in FirebirdDDEXProviderPackageLess32.reg or FirebirdDDEXProviderPackageLess64.reg registry entry. 3. The Win7 64bit registry file should be in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\DataProviders 4. You can do a search for "FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ to speed up the process. 5. The places where to update it is marked %Path%. This should be in "CodeBase". 6. Put in the full path to the FirebirdSql.VisualStudio.DataTools.dll that you have saved to a folder for this purpose. Machine.config update Add the following two sections to machine.config (located usually at C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config and C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config on 64-bit system). To do this you have to run the editing application (whether it is notepad or Visual Studio) as an administrator (Properties on the short cut for the application - advanced tab - enable the option to 'run as administrator') <configuration> ... <configSections> ... <section name="firebirdsql.data.firebirdclient" type="System.Data.Common.DbProviderConfigurationHandler, System.Data, Version=2.0.0.0, 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=%Version%, Culture=%Culture%, PublicKeyToken=%PublicKeyToken%" /> ... </DbProviderFactories> </system.data> ... </configuration> And substitute: %Version% With the version of the provider assembly that you have in the GAC. %Culture% With the culture of the provider assembly that you have in the GAC. %PublicKeyToken% With the PublicKeyToken of the provider assembly that you have in the GAC. VS2008 - needed support files to be added - Embedded version Add the following files to the Program Files Folder for VS2008 which is located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7 for 64bit systems. fbembed.dll, ib_util.dll, icudt30.dll, icuin30.dll, icuuc30.dll, msvcp80.dll, msvcr80.dll -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I haven't explored -exactly- what was needed, I just included all of the above in that folder (Program Files Folder for VS2008) and the VS GUI worked as expected. It may be possible to eliminate some of those with further testing. Also I changed the first mod in the Machine.config to match the second modification even thought it didn't call for it. I don't know what difference that would/will make. Hope this helps someone else who is trying to install the DDEX provider... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Kevin Meyers Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:53 AM To: fir...@li... Subject: [Firebird-net-provider] Installing for Use with Visual Studio 2008Professional All: Please excuse the newbie question. I worked with Interbase years ago and Firebird 1.5 briefly with Delphi a few years ago, but would now like to use the current version of Firebird with Visual Studio 2008 Professional (VS2008). I have looked through all of the resources I can find as well as information I found on various sites on the web on how to install it. What I have found is often incomplete and contradictory. Does anyone know of a clear set of instructions for setting up Firebird and VS2008 to work together? I sure would appreciate any help you could provide. For reference, I am using the following: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) Visual Studio 2008 Professional (9.0.21022.8 RTM) .NET 3.5 SP1 Firebird 2.5.1 (64-bit) Thanks in advance for your help! Kevin Meyers kev...@gm... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Fir...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider |