Recently viewed a great presentation by of Steve Sanderson (blog.stevensanderson.com) on using SPA with MVC4. I tired with FB 2.5 and it works great. I’ve written my first blog This shows how to change the default behavior from Code First to Database First with these new technologies. I just wanted to contribute the list.
Thanks,
John R. Tomaselli
From Jiří Činčura blog :
Yesterday I released ADO.NET provider for Firebird version 2.7.5 and there’s one feature I’d like to blog about. As you might know Firebird has a pretty old limitation on “size” of query. It’s both the string itself, but also the column datatypes and parameters used. No need to dive to details, because I’ll only talk about the first item.
Jiri Cincura was recently interviewed for InfoQ article – Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project. We touched Firebird, ADO.NET, O/RMs, Entity Framework etc. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Update: The article seems to be retracted for the moment , Don’t panic we asked why and investigate the cause (see the comments section) ,
Here is the full text from Google cache
We recently spoke with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird database project.
InfoQ: Can you tell us briefly about yourself and your role in creating the ADO.NET provider for Firebird?
Jiri: Currently I’m project lead for the ADO.NET provider for Firebird project. And actually only one active right now. I’m doing majority of development (although there are some worth contributions) and all the stuff around, like testing, releases, issue tracker watching, replying in mailing list etc.
InfoQ: And for the benefit of our readers who are unfamiliar with it, who would you describe Firebird?
Articles are in Portuguese but you can use google translate
In this post, we will begin a series of articles regarding how to use Firebird DBMS (Database Management System Data) in an ASP.NET 4.0, C #, using Visual Studio 2010.
If you’re using Firebird from .NET you should visit my talk on Firebird Conference 2011. This year it’s in Luxembourg at November 25-26.
There’s no schedule yet (in time of writing), but I can tell you, that my talk will be on Friday, for sure. Topics covered are obvious. Everything worth mentioning from last year or so in .NET provider development and also some future plans. Feel free to come and ask whatever .NET provider related (or Firebird) you want.
P.S. Would you be interested in picking up some Twitter questions during the talk?
Jiri wrote on his blog :
I recently improved the command logging in ADO.NET provider for Firebird. Let me start with little bit of history and then you’ll see the motivation and current improvements.
The vb.net grid issue, typical in Firebird, consist in the fact that, after you insert a new record with an autoincrement field in a datagridview, we have to exit from the application to be able to edit the new inserted record.
To solve this issue you have to proceed this way
From Jiri’s blog
Remember the challenge I did some time ago with .NET provider for Firebird and MonoTouch? Well because I’ve got access to previews of MonoDroid, why not to try the same here?
It may came as a shock but Firebird does not have direct support for neither bools nor guids. On the other hand people around Firebird are smart and came with more or less standard solutions for both.
Firebird has a feature allowing you to specify tables you want to lock (read or write and exclusive/protected/shared) when starting transaction so now is proper implemented in .net provider snapshots
