Hello MySQL Connector/NET community,

Keeping an ongoing pace to support the latest technologies, we are pleased to announce the latest updates regarding MySQL Connector/NET and Entity Framework Core.

As you may know, Entity Framework Core 3.1 is the latest and long-term support (LTS) release, meaning that it will be supported for at least 3 years. It has a primary goal to polish the EF Core 3.0 version and reintroduces support for .NET Standard 2.0, so it will run on .NET Frameworks versions that support the standard. In our continuous effort to keep up on the latest technologies, we would like to share with you that our latest GA release, Connector/NET 8.0.20, comes with full support for EF Core 3.1.

Let’s have a short demonstration on how to use Connector/NET and EF Core. We are going to use the Code First process to create the database in our server and build up our Entity Model in a Console …

MySQL Connector/Net 6.5.6, a new maintenance release of our 6.5 series, has been released.  This release is GA quality and is appropriate for use in production environments.  Please note that 6.6 is our latest driver series and is the recommended product for development. It is now available in source and binary form from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/#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.)