Re: [Firebird-net-provider] visual studio 2013, firebird and entity framawork

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 26-12-2013 15:09, is...@ex... wrote:
> well , still cannot use ef with firebird in vs2013 pro and Win7 pro !
>
> here what i have done : i have created a new class library for my DAL
> project , and imported the ef6 and the firebird provider via nuget like
> said in this page
> http://www.nuget.org/packages/FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient-EF6/
> then i copied the fb provider to some place and use gacutil to regiter
> it into the cache:
>
>     C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1
>     Tools\gacutil -i fibirdprovierpath
>
> please note that i used the gacutil from the netfx4.5.1 (don't know if
> it change something)
> ok after that i have grabbed the ddex dlls, put them somewhere , change
> the regfiles that came with (32/64), for the path and run them.
>
> what else ....
> ah yes , i have also modified the machine.config (32/64) to reference
> the firebird provider .
> Now, i can add a firebird connection without any problem in the servers
> window, i can even create a winform pp that use firebird dataset,BUT
> when i want to add an edmx model the firebird option is unavailable, i
> have only sql server !!!!!!
> make sense to anyone please !!!

You have only downloaded the client binary. For designer support you 
need to install the DDEX Provider from 
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/net-provider/

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel