Firebird SQL in .NET

From the dotnetfirebird.org website:

Firebird is a compact, powerful, open source database. See a complete list of features and compare it with other database engines.
Top features:
  * Ready for the Enterprise (full transaction control, stored procedures, triggers, views, BLOBs, auto increment fields, hot backup)
  * Embeddable (< 2 MB runtime size)
  * XCOPY Data Deployment
  * ADO.NET Provider
  * VS.NET Visual Design Support

• http://www.dotnetfirebird.org/
• http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

1. Download the Firebird SQL embedded server
2. Extract it to somewhere on your hard disk.
3. Download the Firebird .NET data provider
4. Run the installer for the .NET data provider.

1. Create a new Visual C# 2005 Express project.
2. Add a reference to the FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird assembly DLL.
3. Add the embedded Firebird DLL fbembed.dll to your project, and set it's Build Action to Content, and Copy to Output Directory to Copy if newer.
4. In your code file, add a using FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird; statement. Now you have access to the various Firebird SQL classes such as FbConnection, FbConnectionStringBuilder, FbScript, FbDataAdapter, etc.