Connector/Net 5.0.1-Beta has been released.
Hi,
MySQL Connector/Net 5.0.1 Beta has been released. MySQL Connector/Net is an all-managed ADO.Net provider for MySQL. While this release is suitable for any version of MySQL, it is strongly encouraged that this release not be used on any production data. This release is feature complete with the exception of DTC support in System.Transactions.
It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)
Highlights in this release:
* Support for ADO.Net 2.0 interfaces and subclasses
(this release now includes foreign key support)
* Re-architected to improve speed and flexibility
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The internals of the provider have been improved to allow column values to be retrieved without boxing in many cases. Also, the internal changes have enabled the future inclusion of embedded and client library support.
* Implemented Usage Advisor
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The Usage Advisor first appeared in Connector/J. We have now implemented that feature in Connector/Net. Enabling it causes the provider to check both your queries and how you read the results and report to you if it thinks you are using the provider in an inefficient manner. It checks such things as using a query without an index, not reading all the columns or rows from a resultset, etc.
* Implemented asynchronous query methods
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The MySqlCommand object now supports asynchronous queries. This is implemented using the BeginExecuteNonQuery and EndExecuteNonQuery methods. BeginExecuteReader and EndExecuteReader are now included.
* Implemented stored procedure metadata caching
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We now cache the metadata that is retrieved during stored procedure and stored function execution. This cache data is used for subsequent executions of that stored routine.
* Added PerfMon hooks
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This release includes PerfMon hooks to monitor stored procedure cache hits and misses. We are looking at adding additional hooks in the first beta release.
* Removed use of SharpZipLib library
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We have replaced use of the SharpZipLib library with the deflate support available with .NET 2.0.
Support for embedded server and client library has been removed
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For those of you that have seen my presentations on 5.0, we decided to remove these features to help get 5.0 out the door more quickly. These features will reappear in a later version of the product.
The installer for this release installs the assembly into the GAC and registers the provider with machine.config. Because of this, you need to run the installer as a member of the administrators role. There is also a bug known in this release that applications using this build of the connector, when run on Vista, require administrator mode. We are looking into this issue for the next release.
Thank you for checking out this release of Connector/Net.
-Reggie
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/2006 08:36PM by Edwin DeSouza.