<p>Can't find anything relevant about Entity Framework/MySQL on Google so I'm hoping someone knows about it.</p>

[{'answer_id': 76682, 'author': 'Lars Truijens', 'author_id': 1242, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1242', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You would need a mapping provider for MySQL. That is an extra thing the Entity Framework needs to make the magic happen. <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/" rel="noreferrer">This blog</a> talks about other mapping providers besides the one Microsoft is supplying. I haven\'t found any mentionings of MySQL.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 145819, 'author': 'Sir Code-A-Lot', 'author_id': 13148, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/13148', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>MySQL is hosting a webinar about EF in a few days... \nLook here: <a href="http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-204.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-204.html</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>edit:</strong> That webinar is now at <a href="http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand-webinars/display-od-204.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand-webinars/display-od-204.html</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 679792, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>This isn\'t about MS and what they want.  They have created an *open system for others to plug-in \'providers\' - postgres and sqlite have it - mysql is just laggin...  but, good news for those interested, i too was looking for this and found that the MySql Connector/Net 6.0 will have it...  you can check it out here: </p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.upfromthesky.com/blog/post/2009/03/24/MySql-Supports-the-Entity-Framework.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://www.upfromthesky.com/blog/post/2009/03/24/MySql-Supports-the-Entity-Framework.aspx</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 712428, 'author': 'pattersonc', 'author_id': 82130, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/82130', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Check out my post on this subject. </p>\n\n<p><a href="http://pattersonc.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/01/using-mysql-with-entity-framework-and-aspnet-mvc-%e2%80%93-part-i/" rel="noreferrer">http://pattersonc.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/01/using-mysql-with-entity-framework-and-aspnet-mvc-–-part-i/</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 848539, 'author': 'Vin', 'author_id': 1747, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1747', 'pm_score': 8, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>It\'s been released - Get the <a href="http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net" rel="noreferrer">MySQL connector for .Net v6.5</a> - this has support for\n    [Entity Framework]</p>\n\n<p>I was waiting for this the whole time, although the support is basic, works for most basic scenarios of db interaction. It also has basic Visual Studio integration.</p>\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>\n<a href="http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/" rel="noreferrer">http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/</a>\nStarting with version 6.7, Connector/Net will no longer include the MySQL for Visual Studio integration. That functionality is now available in a separate product called MySQL for Visual Studio available using the MySQL Installer for Windows (see <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-installer-for-windows.html" rel="noreferrer">http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-installer-for-windows.html</a>).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1687051, 'author': 'aaimnr', 'author_id': 26444, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/26444', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Vintana,</p>\n\n<p>Od course there\'s something ready now. <a href="http://www.devart.com/products.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.devart.com/products.html</a> - it\'s commercial although (you have a 30days trial IIRC). They make a living writing providers, so I guess it should be fast and stable. I know really big companies using their Oracle provider instead of Orace and MS ones.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3240257, 'author': 'Brian Frantz', 'author_id': 5117026, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5117026', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I didn\'t see the link here, but there\'s a beta .NET Connector for MySql.  Click "Development Releases" to download 6.3.2 beta, which has EF4/VS2010 integration:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html#downloads" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html#downloads</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 6241515, 'author': 'scotru', 'author_id': 298677, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/298677', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You might also look at <a href="https://www.devart.com/dotconnect/mysql/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.devart.com/dotconnect/mysql/</a></p>\n\n<p>DevArt\'s connector supports EF and MySQL.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 16254132, 'author': 'oware', 'author_id': 1322781, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1322781', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Be careful using connector .net, Connector 6.6.5 have a bug, it is not working for inserting tinyint values as identity, for example:</p>\n\n<pre><code>create table person(\n    Id tinyint unsigned primary key auto_increment,\n    Name varchar(30)\n);\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>if you try to insert an object like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Person p;\np = new Person();\np.Name = 'Oware'\ncontext.Person.Add(p);\ncontext.SaveChanges();\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You will get a Null Reference Exception:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Referencia a objeto no establecida como instancia de un objeto.:\n   en MySql.Data.Entity.ListFragment.WriteSql(StringBuilder sql)\n   en MySql.Data.Entity.SelectStatement.WriteSql(StringBuilder sql)\n   en MySql.Data.Entity.InsertStatement.WriteSql(StringBuilder sql)\n   en MySql.Data.Entity.SqlFragment.ToString()\n   en MySql.Data.Entity.InsertGenerator.GenerateSQL(DbCommandTree tree)\n   en MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlProviderServices.CreateDbCommandDefinition(DbProviderManifest providerManifest, DbCommandTree commandTree)\n   en System.Data.Common.DbProviderServices.CreateCommandDefinition(DbCommandTree commandTree)\n   en System.Data.Common.DbProviderServices.CreateCommand(DbCommandTree commandTree)\n   en System.Data.Mapping.Update.Internal.UpdateTranslator.CreateCommand(DbModificationCommandTree commandTree)\n   en System.Data.Mapping.Update.Internal.DynamicUpdateCommand.CreateCommand(UpdateTranslator translator, Dictionary`2 identifierValues)\n   en System.Data.Mapping.Update.Internal.DynamicUpdateCommand.Execute(UpdateTranslator translator, EntityConnection connection, Dictionary`2 identifierValues, List`1 generatedValues)\n   en System.Data.Mapping.Update.Internal.UpdateTranslator.Update(IEntityStateManager stateManager, IEntityAdapter adapter)\n   en System.Data.EntityClient.EntityAdapter.Update(IEntityStateManager entityCache)\n   en System.Data.Objects.ObjectContext.SaveChanges(SaveOptions options)\n   en System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.SaveChanges()\n   en System.Data.Entity.Internal.LazyInternalContext.SaveChanges()\n   en System.Data.Entity.DbContext.SaveChanges()\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Until now I haven't found a solution, I had to change my tinyint identity to unsigned int identity, this solved the problem but this is not the right solution.</p>\n\n<p>If you use an older version of Connector.net (I used 6.4.4) you won't have this problem.</p>\n\n<p>If someone knows about the solution, please contact me.</p>\n\n<p>Cheers!</p>\n\n<p>Oware</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 29487854, 'author': 'Igor Yalovoy', 'author_id': 790465, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/790465', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you interested in running Entity Framework with MySql on mono/linux/macos, this might be helpful \n<a href="https://iyalovoi.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/entity-framework-with-mysql-on-mac-os/" rel="nofollow">https://iyalovoi.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/entity-framework-with-mysql-on-mac-os/</a></p>\n'}]
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