- Posted by reggie on October 4, 2006
Today we have released MySQL Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.0.1 beta -- a downloadable plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows Windows developers to quickly build MySQL data-driven applications with Visual Studio. With this plug-in, developers will be able to create, modify and manage MySQL database objects with an easy-to-use interface from within the Visual Studio IDE. This product is delivered as a package compatible with Visual Studio
2005 and delivers the following features:
- DDEX (Data Designer Extensibility) compatibility
- Ability to work with MySQL objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc) from within Server Explorer
Note
It is critical that this release only be used with Connector/Net 5.0.1. After installing Connector/Net 5.0.1, you will need to make a small change in your machine.config file. This file should be located at %win%\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config (%win% should be the location of your Windows folder). Near the bottom of the file you will see a line like this:
<add name="MySQL Data Provider" invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"
description=".Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL"
type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, MySql.Data"/>
It needs to be changed to be like this:
<add name="MySQL Data Provider" invariant="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"
description=".Net Framework Data Provider for MySQL"
type="MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlClientFactory, MySql.Data,
Version=5.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d"/>
Note that this change is only necessary due to a small bug in the installer for Connector/Net 5.0.1 that will be corrected for 5.0.2.
Several bugs have been fixed since the first release of these tools, and we have added preliminary support for MySQL 4.1. There are a number of known problems with the support for MySQL 4.1 that will be addressed before the GA release.
We are planning on including tighter integration with Visual Studio's DataSet Designer in the 1.1 GA release. This will include the ability for users to create typed datasets that they can reference from within their code. This is a very important feature for us and one we are working hard to provide.
MySQL Tools for Visual Studio binaries are currently available under a no-charge license. We plan to release the source code and are currently determining what license the source code will be placed under. The plug-in can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/visual-studio-plugin/1.0.html.
Thank you for your time and effort in checking out this product. Please don't hesitate to use the following resources for posting your bug reports, questions, or concerns.
Bugs: http://bugs.mysql.com/ (use the Connector/Net category)
Forum: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?38
List: http://lists.mysql.com/dotnet
Thank you!
Reggie Burnett
MySQL