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30.2.1. Connector/NET Versions

There are currently three versions of Connector/NET available:

  • Connector/NET 1.0 includes support for MySQL 4.0, and MySQL 5.0 features, and full compatibility with the ADO.NET driver interface.

    Connector/NET 5.0 includes support for MySQL 4.0, MySQL 4.1, MySQL 5.0 and MySQL 5.1 features. Connector/NET 5.0 also includes full support for the ADO.Net 2.0 interfaces and subclasses, includes support for the usage advisor and performance monitor (PerfMon) hooks.

    Connector/NET 5.1 includes support for MySQL 4.0, MySQL 5.0, MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 6.0 (Falcon Preview) features. Connector/NET 5.1 also includes support for a new membership/role provider, Compact Framework 2.0, a new stored procedure parser and improvements to GetSchema. Connector/NET 5.1 also includes the Visual Studio Plugin as a standard installable component.

Note

Version numbers for MySQL products are formatted as X.X.X. However, Windows tools (Control Panel, properties display) may show the version numbers as XX.XX.XX. For example, the official MySQL formatted version number 5.0.9 may be displayed by Windows tools as 5.00.09. The two versions are the same; only the number display format is different.