A friend and I have started to create a .net data provider for
firebird. It will be licenced under LGPL. It will connect to the
database using gds32.dll. It will be written in VB.NET.

So far we have used .net interop to access the functions in
gds32.dll. We can connect, start and commit/rollback transactions
and execute sql that doesn't return a value.

We are currently working on integrating what we have done into the
provider classes and getting gds32.dll to return data through .net.

More news and files will be posted as they are completed. If you
wish to help email me. If there are no objections I will post an
update to this list when the provider has reached an alpha state.

More information can be found on the project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebase-net/


Christoph