delphi 2010 and dbexpress firebird driver

Question

I am getting to know the dbexpress firebird driver from Chau Chee-Yang (http://sites.google.com/site/dbxfirebird/)

I find it hard to install because there is very little information, I succeded making a connection, but several questions arise: When using the data explorer and I want to connect to the database sends me the following error:

---------------------------  Database Explorer
---------------------------  The located assembly's manifest
definition does not match the
assembly reference. (Exception from
HRESULT: 0x80131040)
--------------------------- 

When I want to generate the query in the command text of the sqldataset delphi sends me the following error:

Cannot load metadata for
FIREBIRDCONNECTION. Add driver unit
to your uses (DbxInterBase or DbxDb2
or DbxMsSql or DBXMySQL or DbxOracle
or DbxSybaseASA or DbxSybaseASE). 

I dont really know If I did something wrong installing the driver, maybe I have to give the sql instructions like SelectSql.add ('select *.... in real time. Instead of the sqldataset I put a SQLTable and I can see the data. I think something is wrong in not being able to write sql instrcciones directly from the CommandText of the sqldataset Any help well be appreciated

Thanks and regards

Answer 1

I haven't used this driver, but if you're using the Enterprise or Architect editions, they ship with their own dbExpress driver for Firebird. It may work better in the data explorer.

Answer 2

I also get that error in the data explorer. There were some notes about this in the support forum. It seemed like he had a fix, but it hasn't made it in yet. Here's the link:

http://groups.google.com/group/dbxfirebird/browse_thread/thread/a99e9f7946abd67c