I’m happy to announce, after about 47 000 000 seconds of thinking and development, release of FirebirdClient 2.5. This new shiny release contains couple of very interesting new features:
* Implementation of Firebird 2.1 protocol improvements. These improvements are focused on making the communication more efficient on slow and with high latencies networks like the internet. * Entity Framework support. Entity Framework is new, rich OR mapping and modeling tool, sitting on the top of ADO.NET. It is store agnostic, using ADO.NET provider to work smoothly, and the FirebirdClient has now build-in support for it. * Windows integrated auth. Firebird server is now able on Windows to authenticate users using a system (ActiveDirectory, etc.), and when you omit username and password FirebirdClient will try to negotiate with server this kind of authentication. * Timeout for wait transactions. Of course, this release contains also lot of bug fixes and performance improvements. You can see the most important on http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-printable/temp/SearchRequest.html?&pid=10003&fixfor=10170&fixfor=10340&fixfor=10261&fixfor=10240&fixfor=10230&status=5&status=6&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=1000. I’m also happy to say, that we have again full set of builds available for download. You can download build for .NET 3.5 (and unit tests), .NET 2.0, Compact Framework, Mono (Linux build) and also ASP.NET web providers. One of the early adopters, SMS-Timing, of Entity Framework support for Firebird comments: “Thanks to Jiri’s (www.x2develop.com) work the Firebird .NET Data Provider made a lot of progress and is now even supporting the Entity Framework. Because of the adaptations we were able to use the newest .NET technologies in a modern programming environment together with a well known Firebird Database. In our industry (entertainment) the customers expect new and exciting software, and therefore the development tools need to be cutting edge. These developments in Firebird have a big impact on our products, and we hope that it brings the same boost to the Firebird Community itself. A preview of our newest software: www.fast4thefuture.com, www.sms-timing.com/en/software_kiosk.php.” You can download the new version on http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider. -- Jiri {x2} Cincura (CTO x2develop.com) http://blog.vyvojar.cz/jirka/ | http://www.ID3renamer.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider
