.NET Core and MySQL Connector NET

It is exciting times!  Recently Microsoft released .NET Core 1.0, a cross platform implementation of the .NET Framework.  .NET Core works on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux and is fully open source!

We wanted to enable users of Connector/Net to be able to use .NET Core so we have been working hard for the past few months to make our provider fully .NET Core compatible.  Because .NET Core does not yet fully replace the traditional .NET Framework, we will continue to ensure our provider is compatible with both frameworks.

Along with these exciting changes, we are also including in our most recent release support for Entity Framwork 7.0  and Entity Framework Core 1.0.

In this article I will explain how to install and setup .NET Core and how to make a simple sample that connects and retrieve data in screen.

Setup

Further information about …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.8 and 6.9.9 are maintenance releases for the 6.8 and 6.9 series of the .NET driver for MySQL. They can be used for production environments.

It is appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.5-5.7.

These are now available in source and binary form from our downloads and mirror sites. (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point-if you can’t find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

Functionality Added or Changed

• Added TLS support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 when connecting to MySQL Server 5.7.

Bugs Fixed

• Improvements were made to how the connector handles aborted connections. (Bug #23346197, Bug #80997).
• With Entity Framework 6, …

I’m pleased to announce that MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 Maintenance Release is now generally available.

MySQL Connector/J can be downloaded from the official distribution channels MySQL Downloads and The Central Repository. The commercially licensed version is available for download at My Oracle Support.

As always, we recommend that you check the CHANGES file in the download archive and/or the release notes page to know what is new and if there are any changes that might affect your applications.

With MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 you get the continuously …

We are pleased to announce the first release of MySQL Connector/J 6.0! This is a new branch of development, which breaks from some of the traditions of the very stable and very mature Connector/J 5.1 branch. We have combed through lots of code and refactored it in order to support development of future features including our X DevAPI implementation and support for X Protocol. This work manifests in a number of visible changes, including revising the growing set of connection and build properties.

Beginning with Connector/J 6.0, we are moving away from having one jar that supports all versions of Java. Instead we are building one jar/package for every supported version of Java. This simplifies the build process as well as lots of code that was required to …

I’m pleased to announce that MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38 Maintenance Release is now generally available.

MySQL Connector/J can be downloaded from the official distribution channels MySQL Downloads and The Central repository. The commercially licensed version is available for download at My Oracle Support.

As always, we recommend that you check the CHANGES file in the download archive and/or the release notes to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your application.

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38, although released shortly after its predecessor, …

We are very pleased to announce that the MySQL Connector/Net source code has been added to GitHub. All of our versions can be found at MySQL Connector/Net repository, under the umbrella of the MySQL organization. This repository will expose the source code of the latest generally available (GA) releases. Same versions that are available in the official MySQL download site.

There are no changes to the releases cycles or the channels that we use for publishing new versions of Connector/Net. The purpose of publishing on GitHub is providing our users a quicker way to get the source code of all our GA versions. The repository contains all history since 6.7 alpha version.

I’m pleased to announce: MySQL Connector/J 5.1.37 Maintenance Release is now available.

MySQL Connector/J can be downloaded from the official distribution channels MySQL Downloads and The Central repository. Commercial license version is available for download at My Oracle Support.

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the
download archive and/or the release notes to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your application.

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.37 includes several bug fixes and other improvements. I’d like to …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.7.9, 6.8.7, and 6.9.8 are maintenance releases for the series of the .NET driver for MySQL. They can be used for production environments.

They are appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.5-5.7.

• The GB18030 Chinese character set is now supported, a character set that was added in MySQL 5.7.4.
• The JSON type is now supported, a type that was added in MySQL 5.7.8.
• Generated columns (GENERATION_EXPRESSION) are now supported, a feature added in MySQL 5.7.6.

An additional entry added for 6.8.7:

• A connection string that included Chinese characters for a database or uid property would emit the following exception;
  “MySqlException: Unknown database ‘???'”. To solve this, the handshake process was hanged to use bytes instead of encoded strings.

The …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.7.8, 6.8.6, and 6.9.7 are maintenance releases for the series of the .NET driver for MySQL. They can be used for production environments.

They are appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.5-5.7.

They are now available in source and binary form from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point-if you can’t find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.8

• Connections to MySQL server 5.7 now default to using SSL.

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.6

• Connections to MySQL server 5.7 now default to using SSL.

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.9.7

• The selection of a …

I’m pleased to announce that Connector/J has a new home.

Just as several other MySQL products, Connector/J source code management moved to Git and, pretty much as expected, to GitHub. Our reasoning is nothing else than listening to our users demands and trying to follow best trends and practices. There was nothing significantly wrong with Bazaar and Launchpad, as they served us well for the last seven years. It was just time to move on.

Rest assured, all will work as before, no complications no hassles. Our public GitHub repository will expose Connector/J source code as it is in the latest generally available (GA) release, as it has been for the last years.

From now on you will find …