Description:

MySQL Connector/Net enables developers to easily create .NET applications that
require secure, high-performance data connectivity with MySQL. It implements the
required ADO.NET interfaces and integrates into ADO.NET aware tools. Developers
can build applications using their choice of .NET languages. MySQL Connector/Net
is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver written in 100% pure C#.

Features:

MySQL Connector/Net includes full support for:
MySQL 5.0 features (stored procedures, etc.)
MySQL 4.1 features (server-side prepared statements, Unicode, and shared memory access, etc.)
Large-packet support for sending and receiving rows and BLOBs up to 2 gigabytes in size
Protocol compression which allows for compressing the data stream between the
client and server
Support for connecting using TCP/IP sockets, named pipes, or shared memory on Windows
Support for connecting using TCP/IP sockets or Unix sockets on Unix
Support for the open source Mono framework developed by Novell
Fully-managed, does not utilize the MySQL client libary.

Connector/Net 5.1 is the most exciting release of MySQL's fully managed
ADO.Net provider to date. Some of the most user-requested features have been
included. For example:
Support for fully commented stored procedures.
Support for Compact Framework 2.0.
Support for ASP.Net 2.0 Membership and Role systems.