ADO.NET provider 2.6.0 for Firebird released

18 Nov 2010 1 mins .NET, Databases in general, Entity Framework, Entity SQL, Firebird, LINQ

Firebird .NET provider team is proud to announce next version of ADO.NET provider for Firebird – 2.6.0.

This version contains various bug fixes as well as new features and improvements. And of course support for some of new Firebird server features. Highlights:

.NET 4 Client Profile support
Entity Framework 4 support
Command cancellation support
Support for UTF8 filenames

All changes can be found at tracker.firebirdsql.org.

You can download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-net-provider/2.6.0/ or http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider.

Thanks to all who helped improving and hunting issues.

Jiří Činčura is .NET, C# and Firebird expert. He focuses on data and business layers, language constructs, parallelism, databases and performance. For almost two decades he contributes to open-source, i.e. FirebirdClient. He works as a senior software engineer for Microsoft. Frequent speaker and blogger at www.tabsoverspaces.com.