MySQL Connector/Net6.6.0

MySQL Connector/Net lets you easily develop .NET applications that require secure, high-performance data connectivity with MySQL. It implements the required ADO.NET interfaces and integrates into ADO.NET aware tools. Developers can build applications using their choice of .NET languages. Connector/Net is a fully managed ADO.NET driver written in 100% pure C#.

MySQL Connector/Net includes full support for:

Features provided by MySQL Server up to and including MySQL Server version 5.5.

Large-packet support for sending and receiving rows and BLOBs up to 2 gigabytes in size.

Protocol compression, which enables compressing the data stream between the client and server.

Connections using TCP/IP sockets, named pipes, or shared memory on Windows.

Connections using TCP/IP sockets or Unix sockets on Unix.

The Open Source Mono framework developed by Novell.

Fully managed, does not utilize the MySQL client library. .