[Firebird-net-provider] Visual Studio 2008 - Add data connection error

[Mat D. <mdu...@no...>]

Hi, Ive installed the Firebird client ok (FirebirdClient-2.5.0-Alpha2) , 
and proved via some code that Visual Studio can access and extract via 
query some data from a firebird table. However, I want to be able to add 
a data connection via the server explorer (and thereby using the built 
in data aware components).

I've gone through the DDEX install (FirebirdDEXProvider-2.0.2.exe).

and In the registry file, FirebirdDDEXProviderPackageLess32.reg, 
searched and replaced all occurrences of "8.0" with "9.0" and path, and 
updated the machine.config file.

When I come to add a Data connection via the server explorer, I can 
Select "Firebird data source", and data provider as ".NET Framework Data 
Provider for Firdbird".

After pressing continue, I can set the Connectionstring, which I set to

Server=192.168.0.16;User=XXXXXX;Password=XXXXXXX;Database=/db/dp.fdb

I can Test the connection which brings up Ok, but as soon as I try and 
"Ok" from this screen, I get an error

"Failure has occured while loading a type"

Anybody else hit this ?

cheers

Mat