Set up Visual Studio for using LINQ with Interbase

Question

I've recently come into possession of an Interbase SQL database. The database itself is from 2006. From my own research I've determined that the Interbase database can be connected to in one of two ways, either ODBC or ADO.NET 2.0.

I've managed to add an ODBC data connection in Visual Studio. My boss has decided that it's awful to perform queries this way and is convinced there's a way to use LINQ, maybe by using Firebird.

One of the constraints of the project is that we need to eventually connect the database to a SharePoint application. If anyone has any ideas for something that could work outside of SharePoint we're not opposed to creating a web service.

Answer 1

With Firebird, you can use this Entity Framework provider. I don't know such providers for Interbase, but may be there is some too.