At 04:39 PM 4/09/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>I can't get access to the .net provider mailing list, so here I am.

I've subscribed you as jgarry@....

As a consideration to others, you should avoid posting messages and
requests to list servers in non-plain-text formats. Some of the
Sourceforge list servers seem to enforce this rule.

>The .net provider promises:
>
> "Transparent Text BLOB Support
>BLOB fields with TEXT subtype can be accessed as strings transparently."
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>Not true. I had to do something like the following:
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>byte[] chr = new byte[500];
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>myReader.GetBytes(2, 0, chr, 0, 500);
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>Has anyone else run into this?

Firebird doesn't read text blobs as strings. What it can do is accept a
string as input to a text blob for inserts and updates; and it can accept
some string functions in search expressions.

So you do need to post to the firebird-net-provider list to find out
exactly how to make the .net provider read a text blob as a string (or to
alert the developer to a possible documentation error...)

^ heLen