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:

• MySQL Server 5.7
• .NET Core 1.1 environment installed
  https://www.microsoft.com/net/core
• Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio Code
• Sakila sample database
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/sakila/en/sakila-installation.html

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

Note: the …

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 …