[Firebird-net-provider] Unable to connect to host : SOLVED (I hope)

[Ashley Marques]

Hi, everybody,      First of all, I’d like to thank your time and knowledge spent in this great tool, Carlos.    Well, I was receiving the (so popular) error “UNABLE TO CONNECT TO HOST (‘HOSTNAME’)” using the porperty window or not.    I checked the host name, server activitiy, database name, port, everything was ok.    By the way, using WinXP SP2, .NET 2.0, VBExpress 2005 and C#Express 2005.    Since I couldn’t solve this problem, I decided look at the source code and I found out where the exception was raised, it’s in the GdsConnection.cs file, “Connect” method, line : “IPAddress hostadd = Dns.GetHostEntry(dataSource).AddressList[0];”    The AddressList array is not a Zero-based array, so I replaced to: “IPAddress hostadd = Dns.GetHostEntry(dataSource).AddressList[1];”    I don’t Know if this happens only in “SOME” or “ALL” VB/C# Express Editions, even less MOMO.    Now I can connect and use Fibird, but only by code, I don’t Know what dependecies I forget that I can’t connect throught property window       So I would be glad if somebody could release the installation package with these changes...     Thanks