ADO.NET provider 7.5.0.0 for Firebird is ready (with Entity Framework Core 3.1 support)

6 Feb 2020 1 mins .NET, C#, Databases in general, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, Entity SQL, Firebird, LINQ, SQL, Visual Studio

New version 7.5.0.0 of ADO.NET provider for Firebird is ready for download. This release brings support for Entity Framework Core 3.1 (3.1.1 to be precise), Entity Framework 6.4 and some small bug fixes.

One notable item to consider when updating to new version is this fix to match the specification.

Overview of all the changes can be found in tracker.

You can get the bits from NuGet FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient, EntityFramework.Firebird and FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird (or from firebirdsql.org).

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.