[Firebird-net-provider] Start and stop firebird

[<ja...@er...>]

Hi all,

I have a question that it's more for the general list but maybe you 
know the answer.
We need to distribute the firebird database with our application, but 
because our code
is in C# we are not using the embedded database (.Net data provider 
doesn't support
the embedded database).

Then we need to distribute firebird and we do in a silent way unzipping 
the engine in 
a specific folder (we don't want to distribute the actual firebird 
setup or we don't 
want to install it as a service). What we do is start a process to 
start the engine:

fbserver.exe -a

and killing the process to stop the server. Do you know any better way 
to do it? 
Which is the commad to stop the server? There is a way to start the 
server without the
icon in the system tray?

Thank you.

Regards,
Jesus