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Getting started with ASP.NET Core and MySQL Connector/NET

This tutorial shows how to read information from MySQL Sakila database in an ASP.NET Core application using Connector/NET Core to explore the possibility to run this application on any .NET Core supported environment as Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Pre-requisites:

Windows and Visual Studio 2015

The first step is to create an ASP.NET Core Web Application (.NET Core) type project and name it MvcSakilaCore

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Open source or Open Core or Commercial... Does it matter??

This is my 2 cents in the Open Source vs. Open Code vs. Commercial debate. And it's a long one...

Maybe some of you reading this are offended already, but bear with me, I'll get there. The way I see the Open Source model, having worked with OSS at MySQL for 6+ years now, is that this is a great way of developing software. Not brilliant, but great, but I'll get there also.

Users of OSS, in my mind, are OSS users for one or more of three reasons:

  • It's Open - The users using OSS for this reason believes that being open is in and of itself a great thing, enough so to use OSS even when non-OSS is less expensive and/or better.
  • Cost - OSS is typically less expensive than non-OSS, and this is the reason these users get here. There are then 2 subgroups here, one that represents users that just aren't funded at all, many websites are in this category, the users building Joomla and Drupal sites and …
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