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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.
Connector/NET is written in 100% pure C# code.
MySQL Connector/C++ is licensed under the GPL with a commercial license upon request.
Here are some key features of "MySQL Connector/Net":
· Features provided by MySQL Server up to and including MySQL Server version 5.5.
· Large-packet support for sending and receiving rows and BLOBs up to 2 gigabytes in size.
· Protocol compression which enables 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 library.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Stored procedure debugging.
· Entity Framework 4.3 Code First support.
· Pluggable authentication (not available in this alpha).
Via: MySQL Connector/Net 6.5.4 / 6.6.2 beta