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.NET Connector

Official Connector/NET syntax: connection strings, DbConnection/DbCommand classes, parameterized queries, and data reader/adapter operations.

MySqlConnector for ADO.NET

MySqlConnector is an ADO.NET data provider with support for MariaDB Server. It is licensed under the .

Some other ADO.NET connectors are:

MySQL Connector/NET should generally work with MariaDB.

is a free ADO.NET data provider that supports MariaDB.

It seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio 2008-2017.
It supports .NET Framework 2.0-4.7, and .NET Core 1.x and 2.0
The Commercial edition additionally provides ORM support: Entity Framework v1-v6 and Entity Framework Core, NHibernate, LinqConnect; bundled ORM visual designer tool and many other features.

Some other ADO.NET connectors are:

MySQL Connector/NET should generally work with MariaDB.

is a free ADO.NET data provider that supports MariaDB.

It seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio 2008-2017.
It supports .NET Framework 2.0-4.7, and .NET Core 1.x and 2.0
The Commercial edition additionally provides ORM support: Entity Framework v1-v6 and Entity Framework Core, NHibernate, LinqConnect; bundled ORM visual designer tool and many other features.

Support zero-configuration SSL with MariaDB: #1500
- For MariaDB Server 11.4+
- Available from version 2.4.0
Rewrite server redirection logic based on latest MariaDB specification:
- For MariaDB Server 11.3+
- Available from version
Performance: Avoid SET NAMES commands when not necessary:
- For MariaDB Server 11.5+
- Available from version
Performance improvements
- Implement faster parsing for result sets with multiple rows:
- Support per-query variables for CommandBehavior.SchemaOnly and SingleRow:
Support new MariaDB version numbers:
- For MariaDB Server 11.0+
- Available from version
Support :
- Available from version