Release of EFCore Provider for IBProvider

Hello All!

We have a great New Year’s gift for everyone who uses IBProvider to work with Firebird.

This is the provider for Entity Framework Core v6.0 — Lcpi.EFCore.LcpiOleDb!

We tried to make it as good as possible.

And most importantly — we opened its source code!

So you can make it even better 🙂

Target platform

  • NET6 (Windows)
  • Entity Framework Core v6.0
  • Firebird v3.0.8
  • LCPI ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB
  • LCPI.IBProvider v5

Key Features

  • Supporting of databases with 1 and 3 dialects.
  • Supporting of all FB3 datatypes, except arrays.
  • Providing a local evaluation by server’s rules.
  • Supporting mapping wide set of C# functions to SQL.
  • Providing extensions for nullable value types.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to our users and special thanks to Jeff Hampton who initiated this development process.

Thanks to the EFCore developers and special thanks to Andriy Svyryd.

Thanks to the developers npgsql/efcore.pg and FirebirdSQL/NETProvider.

Links

This news on our website: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_211220-lcpi_efcore_lcpioledb.html

KR, IBProvider Team.

IBProvider News. Visual Studio 2022 support

Hello Everyone!

64-bit Visual Studio 2022 is out today!

We couldn’t stay away from this epic release of Visual Studio and happy to provide support for this IDE from our components.

LCPI ADO.NET Provider for OLE DB v1.25.1

This release contains new DDEX providers for Visual Studio 2022.

We ported all DDEX providers, which were created for VS2019 and FW4.5.0/4.6.2/4.7.2/4.8.0, .NET Standard 2.0.

Moreover, we added DDEX provider for FW3.5.

All DDEX providers packaged into VSIX installers and automatically registering in VS2022.

Just remind, previous releases added the ADO.NET provider for NET6, which supports new system data types: DateOnly and TimeOnly.

IBProvider v5.24 and «LCPI OLE DB Services» v1.20

These releases added vc17 assemblies, compiled by a new studio C++ compiler.

Read more: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_211108-vs2022.html

KR, IBProvider Team.

IBProvider News. Support For Visual Studio 2019

Hello All!

In latest update of our components, we offer support for Visual Studio 2019, which was released a week ago:

  1. New DDEX providers (v1.12) for our ADO.NET provider (FW4.5, FW4.6.2, FW4.7.2) and VS2019. The installation instruction is the same as for Visual Studio 2017.
  2. IBProvider v5.3.1 compiled by VS2019 (signature of binaries – vc16)

IBProvider vc16 builds (32/64bit) have gone through load testing, so you can start using them in your solutions without any problems.

This news at our web site: https://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_190411-vs2019.html

Thanks&Regards. IBProvider Team.