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..hmm and there might be some serious licens issues using MySQL's .Net connector. It's GPL and not LGPL which seem to mean you in some situation have to pay a huge fee of €250+ per seat! I don't have knowledge about GPL and LGPL myself, just got this from a rather old thread on pcreview (https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/anyone-use-devarts-mydirect-net-and-or-dbforgefusion-for-mysql.3619468/)
But MySQL .Net connector is still GPL licensed today.
Yet another reason for MariaDB to have there own .Net connector. But I guess there might be some issues just coping 99,9% of the code with his new knowledge.
An alternative is the commercial connector from DevArt: dotConnect for MySQL (https://www.devart.com/dotconnect/mysql/) Haven't tried it myself yet.
I know this question was written 2 years, 3 months ago, but there is now a free, MIT Licensed .NET Connector called [MySqlConnector](https://mysql-net.github.io/MySqlConnector/) (Source Code: [GitHub](https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/)).
Microsoft posted a [pretty good tutorial](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/mysql/connect-csharp) too.
Cheers!
Colin