How do I connect to Interbase 6 on a remote location from .NET?

Question

What drivers should I use? Are they free?

How should the connectionstring look like?

Thanks

Answer 1

you'd better not use Interbase 6 which is very old.

You can use newest version of Interbase of the fork of Interbase open source named Firebird

Here you can can some connectionstring for firebird

Answer 2

With regard to drivers, Interbase 6 is the same as Firebird 1.0. You can get ADO.net drivers here, and yes, they are free:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/dotnetfirebird/

Note, that Interbase 6 uses a network protocol that transmits many more bytes than necessary, and makes a huge number of network connections for even simple things. It is highly recommended to upgrade to a newer version, like Firebird 2.1, which is backwards compatible, but where the network protocol works much better, and faster.