The professional developer kit for Interbase and Firebird allows create a powerful software using different environments on any programming languages which have support for the OLE DB, ADO or ADO .Net technology. Providers may be used for Linked Server access to Firebird and Interbase DBMS from Microsoft SQL Server, in Business Intelligence services (Integraion, Reporting and Analysis), in Microsoft Office automation, in Visual Studio and in other developer environments.
IBProvider Professional Edition contains:
Six OLE DB-providers:
IBProvider v1 (1.9.16.2886) 32/64 bits;
IBProvider v2 (2.6.10.2886) 32/64 bits;
IBProvider v3 (3.0.0.7270 RC4) 32/64 bits;
The client library for Visual Studio 2003/2005 and C++ Builder (Standard C++, STL):
directly cooperating with OLE DB interface classes;
a set of useful service classes;
Sample code:
IBProvider sample code
database access via client library examples for Visual Studio 2003/2005 and C++Builder;
test case projects (C++ & vbs) and a sample database used in the IBProvider test process;
project files for VC7 and VC8;
The IBProvider help (chm).
IBProvider Professional Edition supports 16 versions of database servers:
All versions of Firebird, including Firebird 2.5.
All versions of Interbase, including Interbase 2009.
IBProvider Free Edition [3.0.0.6941 Release Candidate 4] is the free-of-charge version based on the IBProvider v3 commercial core. The The distribution kit contains IBProvider v3 Free, sample code, documentation and the Ñ++ client library for OLEDB providers (Visual Studio 2003/2005 and C++ Builder)
IBProvider Free Edition supports following database servers: