[Firebird-net-provider] Deployment for EF6 + Firebird .net Application

[Parzival <par...@gm...>]

Hello,

 

I am working for some time now with EF 6.0 and Firebird (after using
Firebird for long time with ODBC etc.).

 

When it comes to deploying the app I am facing an interessting problem. It
runs fine on the development box, but not in VMWare or other PC. The error
claims that the FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient is missing - which is
sitting next to the app.exe.

 

Do you have an idea what could be missing here?

 

Thanks

 

Niko

 

 

Following files are part of the xcopy installation:

echolot.exe

echolot.exe.config

echolotdataaccess.dll (Contains the C# entity framework context)

EntityFramework.dll

EntityFrameworkFirebird.dll

FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird.Client.dll

 

The config file contains following items:

 

  <configSections>

    <!-- For more information on Entity Framework configuration, visit
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=237468 -->

    <section name="entityFramework"
type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection,
EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />

    <sectionGroup name="applicationSettings"
type="System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsGroup, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" >

      <section name="Settings"
type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=4.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false"
/>

    </sectionGroup>

  </configSections>

  <entityFramework>

    <defaultConnectionFactory
type="FirebirdSql.Data.EntityFramework6.FbConnectionFactory,
EntityFramework.Firebird" />

    <providers>

      <provider invariantName="FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient"
type="FirebirdSql.Data.EntityFramework6.FbProviderServices,
EntityFramework.Firebird" />

    </providers>

  </entityFramework>

 

The app starts and at the first time I want to query data 

 

  public IEnumerable GetMaerkte()

        {

            var result = from s in this.ECHOLOT_MAERKTE select new
{s.MARKT};

            return result.ToList();

        }

 

I receive following errormessage:

System.ArgumentException: The ADO.NET provider with invariant name
'FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient' is either not registered in the machine or
application config file, or could not be loaded. See the inner exception for
details. ---> System.ArgumentException: Unable to find the requested .Net
Framework Data Provider.  It may not be installed.