MySQL

MySQL Connector/Net 6.1.1, 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.

It is now available in source and binary form from
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.1.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.)

This release introduces a couple of exciting new features.

• Website Configuration Dialog — This is a new wizard that is activated
  by clicking a button on the toolbar at the top of the solution explorer.
  It is meant to work in conjunction with the ASP.Net administration
  pages.  It makes it easier to activate and set advanced options for the
  different web providers we include.
• Session State Provider — We are now including a session state provider
  that allows you to store your websites state in a MySql server.
• Support for native output parameters — With this release we now support
  native output parameters when connected to a server that supports them.
  Currently we know that includes 6.0.8 and later servers.  It also will
  include 5.4 servers.
• Changed GUID type — We have changed our backend representation of a
  guid type to be CHAR(36).  We are doing this because we feel users will
  want to use the server UUID() function to populate a guid table and UUID
  generates a 36 character string.  Developers of older applications can
  add ‘old guids=true’ to the connection string and the old binary(16)
  type will be used.

 
What we know may be broken

• Documentation is not updated yet.
• Our entity framework support currently treats both binary(16) and
  char(36) columns as  guids.
• Please let us know what else we broke and how we can make it better!

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!

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!

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.