2003-02-17 Daniel Morgan <danmorg@sc.rr.com>

	* doc/provider-factory: add new web page
	about Mono.Data's ProviderFactory

	* doc/web/commands
	* doc/web/makefile: add provider-factory web page to build

	* doc/ado-net
	* doc/ibmdb2
	* doc/postgresql
	* doc/sqlclient
	* doc/tdsclient
	* doc/sybase
	* doc/mysql
	* doc/firebird
	* doc/oracle
	* doc/oledb
	* doc/odbc
	* doc/sqlite: updated web pages

svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=11639

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/web/firebird b/web/firebird
index 9d1c51d4f81..9058c97088f 100755
--- a/web/firebird
+++ b/web/firebird
@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
 * Firebird and Interbase Data Provider
 
 <ul>
+	<li>ADO.NET Data Provider for Firebird and Interbase databases</li>
+
 	<li>Does not exist in Mono, but is a separate project</li>
 	
-	<li><a href="http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php">Firebird Relational Database</a> is 
-	an independent project which uses source code based on the Interbase source code released
+	<li>The <a href="http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php">Firebird Relational Database</a> is 
+	is an independent project which uses source code based on the Interbase source code released
 	by Borland under the Interbase Public License</li>
 	
 	<li>Both the Firebird Relational Database and the Firebird .NET Data Provider can be
 	downloaded from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/">here</a></li>
 	
 	<li>The Firebird .NET Data provider has been made
- available by Carlos Guzmán Álvarez (aka "Carlos G.A."), who has also made a
- number of contributions to the OdbcJdbc code</li>
+    available by Carlos Guzmán Álvarez (aka "Carlos G.A."), who has also made a
+    number of contributions to the OdbcJdbc code</li>
+
+	<li>Bugs with Mono or the data provider should be reported 
+	in Mono's Bugzilla <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/">here</a>.  If you
+	do not have Bugzilla user account, it is free 
+	and easy to 
+	create one <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/createaccount.cgi">here</a>.</li>
 	
 </ul>
 
@@ -102,14 +110,26 @@
 ** Testing
 
 <ul>
+	
 	<li>Need a working mono and mcs</li>
+	
 	<li>Need access to a Firebird Relational Database or you can download
 	it from <a href="http://firebird.sourceforge.net">here</a></li>
+	
 	<li>Get the Firebird .NET data provider from here as 
 	<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider">firebird-net-provider</a>.  Make
 	sure the Firebird .NET data provider binary assembly FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird.dll is
 	installed in the same place as the mono class libraries.</li>
-		<li>C# Example for Mono's System.Data.OleDb:
+	
+	<li>Has a ConnectionString format:
+<pre>
+ "Database=databasefile.gdb;User=user;Password=pass;Dialect=3;Server=hostname"
+</pre>
+	
+	</li>
+	
+	<li>C# Example:
+	
 <pre>
  using System;
  using System.Data;
@@ -126,6 +146,7 @@
 	       "Dialect=3;" +

 	       "Server=localhost";

        IDbConnection dbcon = new FbConnection(connectionString);
+       dbcon.Open();
        IDbCommand dbcmd = dbcon.CreateCommand();
        string sql = "SELECT * FROM employee";
        dbcmd.CommandText = sql;