- Posted by reggie on June 16, 2009
MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.4, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver
for MySQL has been released. This is the first post-GA release of the new
6.0 connector and includes several bug fixes from the initial GA release.
This release is approved for use in all scenarios and officially
supports MySQL servers 4.1 and higher. It is now available in source and binary form from
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html] and mirror sites
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time
- if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later
or choose another download site.)
IMPORTANT
We have had some reports of installer problems with this package. We are working hard to find the problem. For now it appears that making sure your system is fully updated sometimes helps. We will release a fix as 6.0.5 once we have solved this issue.
Fixes from 6.0.3
- fixed regression with using stored procedures with datasets (bug #44460)
- fixed compilation under Visual Studio 2005 (bug #44822)
- fixed support for bool data type in entity framework support
- fixed regression where a user could no longer call GetBytes on a GUID column (bug #44507)
- made some fixes to the syntax coloring of sql inside Visual Studio
- fixed display name of triggers inside server explorer
- fixed trigger editing
- fixed tokenization of escaped backslashes (bug #44960)
- fixed conversion of binary(16) type to GUID for entity framework models (bug #44986)
- fixed global Add New menu options with the Visual Studio integration
- improved ad-hoc registration utility so that it handles VS 2005 and VS 2008 properly
- fixed sql that is generated for commands in data set (bug #44512)
New features and improvements
- added Sun Connect registration
- unsigned values are now handled. Please read the release notes!
- migrated from CTC to VSCT for our menus and buttons. Also the VisualStudio project will also
now load and build under VS2005 or VS2008 loading the proper targets files as needed
Enjoy!
- Posted by reggie on May 7, 2009
We have started a new project wiki for MySQL Connector/Net. It’s a little light in content right now but should grow rapidly. It can be found here. Please let us know what we can do better.
- Posted by reggie on April 28, 2009
MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.3, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is the first GA release of the new 6.0 connector and introduces several new features and enhancements. This release is approved for use in all scenarios and officially supports MySQL servers 4.1 and higher. We had three major goals with this release: speed, entity framework support, and a better Visual Studio experience. I'm happy to report that we have met all three.
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
Fixes from 6.0.2
- fixed broken connection prompting
- fixed installer that was no longer referencing the right folders for Visual Studio assemblies [bug #44141]
- made integer column types returned with table and column collections use the same data type when referencing MySql 4.1 servers and MySql 5.0+ servers (bug #44123)
- lots of unreported bug fixes found in our newly rewritten DDEX provider
New features and improvements
- Massive speedups. We have increased the speed of the provider. In many situations it now matches or exceeds the speed of the native C connector.
- SQL tokenizing has been improved dramatically. Not only is it substantially faster (approx 40%) it also now uses a completely rewritten tokenizer that supports all types of stored procedure comments.
- Added UDF schema collection
- Implement initial Entity Framework support
- Improved Visual Studio integration
Visual Studio improvements
We have completely rewritten our Visual Studio integration bits and are delivering several exciting features with it. Here's a look at some of those features:
1. Now uses the same toolbars and commands as SQL Server so the integration is much more seamless.
2. Uses the native code editor which means code splitting and syntax highlighting.
3. Change script generation
4. And many more smaller features.....
Enjoy!
- Posted by reggie on April 28, 2009
MySQL Connector/Net 5.2.6, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This release is of GA quality and is suitable for use in production environments. We strongly urge you to review the change log that is shipped with the product for a thorough review of the changes.
We have a ton of fixes in this release so please review the changelog and see if your favorite bug has been fixed. This version officially supports all versions of MySQL from 4.1 and later.
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.2.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
Changes since 5.2.5
- cleaned up how stored procedure execution operated when the user does or does not have execute privs on the routine (bug #40139)
- fixed problem with datetime formatting that causes an extra space to be included between the date and time when sent to the server (bug #41021)
- fixed sproc parameter parsing so that a space between the type and size spec would not cause a problem (bug #41034)
- removed code from profile provider that overrode Name and Description properties in error. This had the effect of not allowing you to override those values in the web.config (ug #40871)
- fixed "metadatacollections" collection to include foreign key columns
- fixed GetAllProfiles (which is used by several methods). It had a typo in the SQL and was not including several important columns (bug #41654)
- fixed problem where the core method GetUser was not properly checking the application id when retrieving user id values. This would mean that in some cases methods like ValidateUser would return success when they shouldn't. (bug #42574) This triggered several other cleanups in all the providers
- fixed problem with execution of LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE (which also affected MySqlBulkLoader). When the driver encountered some type of error opening the local file for transport it would still attempt to close the file which would yield a null reference exception (bug #43332)
- fixed Sql null value exception when an attempt was made to reset the password and require question and answer was false. (bug #41408)
- fixed MySqlDataReader.GetGuid to be more robust in how it attempts to read guid values (bug #41452)
- fixed bug where attempting to clear a pool twice would result in a null reference exception (bug #42801)
- Fixed problem with index column schema collection
- Fixed RemoveUsersFromRoles and DeleteRole where they were not calling transactionscope.Complete. This meant that on systems where the provider tables are transaction aware the changes could be rolled back in every case (bug #43553)
- Fixed typo in the collection returned when you request the MetaDataCollections collection. The NumberOfRestrictions column was missing the trailing s. (bug #43990)
- fixed index and index column schema collections that would fail if you specified the any restrictions more specific than table name (bug #43991)
- removed a couple of unnecessary lines from NativeDriver.Open() (bug #44028)
- added connection string option 'use affected rows'. (bug #44194)
- changed MySqlPool so that a freshly pulled connection will issue it's ping and reset outside of the idlepool lock. This lessens some of the contention on the idle pool.
Enjoy!
- Posted by reggie on April 14, 2009
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- Posted by reggie on April 7, 2009
Hi,
MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.2, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is a beta release and is intended to introduce you to the new features and enhancements we are planning. This release should not be used in a production environment.
This release was quickly pushed out due to a problem that caused 6.0.1 to not register with Visual Studio correctly. We also made a small correction to a previous bug fix. SQL generated from entity framework for stored procedures will now not directly reference the schema. This allows the model to move to a different database without need of change. We had previously made this change for tables but failed to do so for procedures.
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
Please take this version for a test drive and let us know what works and what doesn't.
- Posted by reggie on April 1, 2009
MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.1, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is a beta release and is intended to introduce you to the new features and enhancements we are planning. This release should not be used in a production environment.
We had three major goals with this release. Speed, Entity Framework support, and a better Visual Studio experience. I'm happy to report that we have met all three. Please see the complete list of changes below.
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
- Massive speedups. We have increased the speed of the provider. In many situations it now matches or exceeds the speed of the native C connector.
- SQL tokenizing has been improved dramatically. Not only is it substantially faster (approx 40%) it also now uses a completely rewritten tokenizer that supports all types of stored procedure comments.
- Added UDF schema collection
- Implement initial Entity Framework support (see below)
- Improved Visual Studio integration (see below)
Entity Framework support
Yes, we are late to the party but we are here. I apologize for the delays related to this release and I hope that those of you looking to use MySQL with the entity framework will still want to give us a look. This releases uses a entity framework engine that was completely developed in-house and is, therefore, licensed in exactly the same way as our core provider. Please remember that this is an alpha release and we are certain that you will find databases that will not reverse-engineer correctly or you will build models or queries that will not generate correctly. Please file those as bug reports and include all the information you can. We'll quickly get to those as we are going to move as quickly as possible to GA.
Visual Studio improvements
We have completely rewritten our Visual Studio integration bits and are delivering several exciting features with it. Here's a look at some of those features:
1. Now uses the same toolbars and commands as SQL Server so the integration is much more seamless.
2. Uses the native code editor which means code splitting and syntax highlighting.
3. Change script generation
4. And many more smaller features.....
Please take this version for a test drive and let us know what works and what doesn't.
- Posted by reggie on February 21, 2009
MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.0, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is an alpha release and is intended to introduce you to the new features and enhancements we are planning. This release should not be used in a production environment.
We had three major goals with this release. Speed, Entity Framework support, and a better Visual Studio experience. I'm happy to report that we have met all three. Please see the complete list of changes below.
It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
- Massive speedups. We have increased the speed of the provider. In many situations it now matches or exceeds the speed of the native C connector.
- SQL tokenizing has been improved dramatically. Not only is it substantially faster (approx 40%) it also now uses a completely rewritten tokenizer that supports all types of stored procedure comments.
- Added UDF schema collection
- Implement initial Entity Framework support (see below)
- Improved Visual Studio integration (see below)
Entity Framework support
Yes, we are late to the party but we are here. I apologize for the delays related to this release and I hope that those of you looking to use MySQL with the entity framework will still want to give us a look. This releases uses a entity framework engine that was completely developed in-house and is, therefore, licensed in exactly the same way as our core provider. Please remember that this is an alpha release and we are certain that you will find databases that will not reverse-engineer correctly or you will build models or queries that will not generate correctly. Please file those as bug reports and include all the information you can. We'll quickly get to those as we are going to move as quickly as possible to GA.
Visual Studio improvements
Even though these improvements did not make the cutoff for this alpha, you will see them in the next drop. We have completely rewritten our Visual Studio integration bits and are delivering several exciting features with it. Here's a look at some of those features:
1. Now uses the same toolbars and commands as SQL Server so the integration is much more seamless.
2. Uses the native code editor which means code splitting and syntax highlighting.
3. Change script generation
4. And many more smaller features.....
Please take this version for a test drive and let us know what works and what doesn't.
- Posted by reggie on January 13, 2009
Well, the perfect Windows 7 notebook [that I own]. I’m sitting at one of my sons wrestling matches typing this into Windows Live Writer running on Windows 7 on a Penryn Macbook Pro. And boy is it sweet.
I’ve had either Vista or Windows Server 2008 dual booting on this Mac since the day I bought it and was never really satisfied with it. I blogged how nice it was shortly after I got it but there seemed to be some nagging issues with it. It always seemed to get too hot. The other main issue was that it would frequently not got to sleep properly. It was not uncommon for m to fully charge the battery, use it for a few minutes, close the lid, and then come back the next day to a dead machine. Very frustrating.
As soon as Windows 7 beta hit the streets I had to give it a try and I am sure glad I did. The sleep issues seem to have been fixed. Windows 7 picked up the built-in wireless without needing to install the Boot Camp drivers (though I did install them later to get the keyboard and iSight working). It also doesn’t seem to get hot any longer. I’ve used it extensively on my lap both on and off power. Only slightly warm. Very nice.
Oh, and the battery life. Under Vista I really would not get any more than 2 hours. It definitely seems better. I would say nearly 3 hours but I don’t have specific data on that.
What do you get when you combine the sleekness and features of a MacBook Pro with the dual boot goodness of Windows 7 and OS/X? Get one and find out! You won’t be disappointed.
- Posted by reggie on November 19, 2008
I am almost certain they won’t but Microsoft should seriously consider how they will make Windows 7 available to the public when it is released next year. Ever since Vista came out there has been no end to the complaining that there were not enough extras available for Vista Ultimate. They say it was not worth the cost and I agree.
So here is what Microsoft should do. Eliminate all versions of Windows 7 but one. No ultimate edition, or basic edition, or primary basic edition, or grandma’s pro edition. Just one. Very simple. Windows 7.
Then, considering that almost all of the units sold come from new computers, give a free upgrade to Windows 7 to all who purchased Vista Ultimate sort of as a final Vista Ultimate extra.
Finally, sell the Windows 7 upgrade for $99 and the full package for $189 at retail shops.
This is so obvious that a child could figure it out. Which is why I have no hope that Microsoft will see it.