Description

dotConnect for MySQL is a high-performance ORM enabled data provider for MySQL that builds on ADO.NET technology to present a complete solution for developing MySQL-based database applications. It introduces new approaches for designing application architecture, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications.

Our ADO.NET MySQL provider supports a wide range of MySQL-specific features, such as secure SSL and SSH connections, embedded server, compression protocol, HTTP tunneling and others.

Advanced Visual Studio Integration with MySQL
dotConnect for MySQL provides a vast number of GUI tools that increase your productivity. For example, it includes DataSet tools, such as DataSet Wizard, DataSet Editor, DataSet Manager, provide you an easy way to create and edit typed and untyped DataSets.

MySQL ADO.NET Provider supports advanced Visual Studio integration (DDEX) and provides convenient visual component editors to simplify component tweaking.

ADO.NET Provider with .NET Core and Entity Framework Support
dotConnect for MySQL was the first MySQL database provider to support .NET Core and Entity Framework Core, and we work hard to support new platforms and development technologies as soon as they are released.

MySQL support: from 3.23 to 8.0, Percona, and MariaDB
Visual Studio support: 2008 – 2019
Platforms support:
.NET 5.0, 6.0 compatibility
macOS 11 Arm64 (or "Apple Silicon" or "Apple M1") support
Windows 11 is supported
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is supported.
Full .NET Framework 2.0 – 4.8
.NET Core 1.x, 2.x, and 3.0
.NET Compact Framework 2.0 and above
Mono 2.0 and above

Enhanced ORM Support
dotConnect for MySQL offers enhanced ORM support with a bundled visual designer for ORM models - Entity Developer. Our MySQL ADO.NET Provider supports the following ORMs:

Entity Framework v1 - v6
Entity Framework Core 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 5.0, and 6.0
NHibernate
LinqConnect
Dapper

10.1.33 24-Feb-26

• Added support for the VECTOR data type
• Added support for the INET6 data type in MariaDB
• Added support for the UUID data type in MariaDB
• Added the LoadLicenseKey() method to the MySqlConnection class
• Fixed an issue where the license key could not be applied on Red Hat–based Linux distributions (RHEL 9/10, AlmaLinux 9/10, Rocky Linux 9/10) when the system-wide cryptographic policy was set to DEFAULT

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 10
• Added support for NetTopologySuite 2.6 in Entity Framework Core
• Added support for NetTopologySuite 2.6 for EF6 in the .NET Standard 2.0 assemblies of the NuGet packages
• Added support for the VECTOR data type in EF Core
• Updated Entity Framework Core 9 support to version 9.0.12
• Updated Entity Framework Core 8 support to version 8.0.23
• Fixed an issue where LINQ queries with subqueries or projections could generate incorrect SQL aliases when used with Entity Framework Core 9
• Fixed an issue with String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() in LINQ queries in Entity Framework Core
• Fixed an issue with saving and querying MultiPoint spatial values in Entity Framework Core

LinqConnect

• Fixed an issue where Devart.Data.MySql.Linq.dll could be missing from the installation

Additional Information