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 …

Dear MySQL Connector/NET users,

We are proud to announce that the open source version of Connector/NET 8.0.11 is also available as official MySQL NuGet packages. Connector/NET 8.0.11 is a GA release that can be used in production environments. Additionally, users with an older version can safely upgrade if preferred.

What this means for Connector/NET users?

Installing and upgrading packages couldn’t be easier, plus you need only to install the packages that fit your needs. Also, it’s even easier and more straight forward to develop for MySQL from Visual Studio.

NuGet is the package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central software package repository populated by various package authors and tied …