Can I continue to use the interbase vcl components in delphi 2010 with firebird 1.5? Thanks
A:
I'm not sure about the Interbase components, but I've been able to successfully use Firebird under D2010 with DB Express. I used the DBX driver found at http://sites.google.com/site/dbxfirebird/.
Mason Wheeler
2010-05-30 11:57:27
Which components do You use to work with fb1.5 an d2010? Thanks
Alejandro Jourdan
2010-09-06 14:56:07
+5
A:
We've used the IBX components in Delphi 2010 with FB 1.5 and 2.1, no problems - both embedded and client/server versions of Firebird.
We had a large legacy app in D7 that used IBX and IB6.01, we didn't have the resources to go and redevelop the whole thing using dbx so had a go with the newer version of IBX and Firebird and it went like a dream.
The only gotchas we had were to do with UDFs; we had written a few Interbase UDFs of our own that conflicted with newer, built-in functions etc in Firebird. I was happy to drop our UDFs and use the 'official' ones!
robsoft
2010-05-30 12:05:03
A:
As IBX have to support legacy code for Interbase, it will work. Better, it still work with FB 2.1. I think you should read this blog post. http://compaspascal.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-to-use-firebirdibx.html
Also check comments for one update that you will need to make in IBX sources if you will work with non default or Unicode Charsets and Collations.
EMBarbosa
2010-09-28 15:25:32
You are wellcome =]. But surely you should think about upgrade your databases. This could give you some work, but would be worth to do it. In most of cases, i think, you will need nothing more than few days to do it.
EMBarbosa
2010-10-05 16:40:46