1 Summary

MySQLDriverCS: An C# driver for MySQL.
Copyright (c) 2002 Manuel Lucas Viñas Livschitz.

This file is part of MySQLDriverCS.

MySQLDriverCS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

MySQLDriverCS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with MySQLDriverCS; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

About

This project was developed because the only ADO.NET compliant driver is commercial. This driver is free (GPL).

There were another solutions as OLEDB driver and ODBC.NET but the first is very limited and was abandoned by the owner in the year 2001, the second solution ODBC.NET doesn't works fine because ODBC.NET is a very advanced driver not very compatible with the GPL ODBC driver of MySQL.

Objectives

Primary objectives

• Avoid using more than one DLL (assembly) .
• Support all SQL basic functions .
• Additional features.
   

Secondary objectives

• Make an utility library in order to make queries faster using all powerful of .NET Framework.
• Make it mono-compatible in order to use this driver in linux platforms.

License objective

This driver It's mine, that is, I am the only developer. This will persist in order to maintain this piece of software free. Because of this, this software is copyrighted as GPL, in order to retain ownership to avoid falling in commercial hands.

Where to get

You can find a single exe-file (driver+sdk+source) at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63165