MySQL® Connector/Net

MySQL Connector/Net enables developers to easily create .NET applications that require secure, high-performance data connectivity with MySQL. It implements the required ADO.NET interfaces and integrates into ADO.NET aware tools. Developers can build applications using their choice of .NET languages. MySQL Connector/Net is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver written in 100% pure C#.

Features

MySQL Connector/Net includes full support for:

• MySQL 5.0 features (stored procedures, etc.)
• MySQL 4.1 features (server-side prepared statements, Unicode, and shared memory access, etc.)
• Large-packet support for sending and receiving rows and BLOBs up to 2 gigabytes in size
• Protocol compression which allows for compressing the data stream between the client and server
• Support for connecting using TCP/IP sockets, named pipes, or shared memory on Windows
• Support for connecting using TCP/IP sockets or Unix sockets on Unix
• Support for the open source Mono framework developed by Novell
• Fully-managed, does not utilize the MySQL client libary.

Interoperability

MySQL Connector/Net is known to work with the following tools:

• Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003
• Microsoft WebMatrix
• Borland Delphi 8
• Borland C# Builder

Downloads, Licensing, and Support

One version of MySQL Connector/Net is available for download:

• MySQL Connector/Net 1.0 is the development version of the driver, and is available under the GPL.

Sales

To purchase commercial licenses visit the online shop.

Support

For more information on MySQL Support offerings visit the Support Pages.