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How to use samples:

1. Install IBProvider v.3 (optional IBProvider v.2) from site www.ibprovider.com
2. Set correct path in the Data Link Files:
   employee.udl - path to sample database employee.fdb (or .gdb)
   employeeFB2.udl - path to sample firebird v2 database employee.fdb (if FB2 is installed)

3. Use NUnit to run these samples or F5 to run its in debug mode

Any comments or questions? mail to  mailto:ibprovider@ibprovider.com


Samples list (26 samples):

1. ConnectionProvider - Demonstrate differents ways for storing Connection info

2. SampleCommands -
   ExecuteNonQuery, ExecuteReader, Stored Porcedure calling, MARS, arrays, BLOB's samples
   
3. SampleOleDbTransactions -
   Auto commit mode, distributed transactions, nested transactions, 
   savepoints, SQL queries for transaction management
   
4. SampleErrorHandling - Way for error handling  
   
5. SampleMetadata - read metadata from database

6. SampleConnectionPooling - Using connection pooling sample

7. SampleDataProtectionAPI - DAPI, ConnectionStrings encrypting

8. SampleDataSet - DataSet fiiling ways, convert OleDbDataReader to the DataTable, OleDbAdapter.Update()

9. SampleFB2 - EXECUTE BLOCK, INSERT RETURNING, ROLLBACK RETAIN, ROWS DML keywords

10. SampleODBCEscapeCharacters - ODBC escape sequences

11. SampleOleDbProperties - retrive custom provider info from OleDbProperties 

12. SampleDDL - how to create new database, drop database, define tables
                