linebreak differences between Linux and Windows

[Rob Hong]

I decided to develop my application with VB.NET (Visual Studio Express 2013) and MySQL (ADO.NET, with MySQL connector). For development, I do everything locally, in Windows 7, so the MySQL server is localhost. However, in order to share the Winform front-end with my non-programming business partner, I'm using my GreenGeeks shared hosting solution to host a copy (which I update from time to time through a SQL import) of the localhost. I decided not to do replication on the web server because I want my partner to be able to tinker without having his changes overwritten.

However, I've been noticing some issues with the GreenGeeks server, which I presume to be Linux. Specifically, they all seem to relate to how the Linux version of MySQL appears to be inserting additional linebreaks that don't show up on my Windows localhost.

Would this relate to something in the MySQL settings, something peculiar to the difference of hosting on Windows vs Linux, or is the way I'm going about importing flawed?

Thanks so much

Rob