You can test Mono's ODBC provider System.Data.Odbc with the MySQL ODBC driver MyODBC
"DSN=dataSetName;UID=myuserid;PWD=mypassword"
"DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};" +
"SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=test;" +
"UID=myuserid;PASSWORD=mypassword;" +
"OPTION=3";
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Odbc;
public class Test
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
// have an ODBC DSN setup named MYSQLDSN
// that accesses a MySQL database via
// MyODBC driver for ODBC with a
// hostname of localhost and database test
string connectionString =
"DSN=MYSQLDSN;" +
"UID=myuserid;" +
"PWD=mypassword";
IDbConnection dbcon;
dbcon.Open();
dbcon = new OdbcConnection(connectionString);
IDbCommand dbcmd = dbcon.CreateCommand();
// requires a table to be created named employee
// with columns firstname and lastname
// such as,
// CREATE TABLE employee (
// firstname varchar(32),
// lastname varchar(32));
string sql =
"SELECT firstname, lastname " +
"FROM employee";
dbcmd.CommandText = sql;
IDataReader reader = dbcmd.ExecuteReader();
while(reader.Read()) {
string FirstName = (string) reader["firstname"];
string LastName = (string) reader["lastname"];
Console.WriteLine("Name: " +
FirstName + " " + LastName);
}
// clean up
reader.Close();
reader = null;
dbcmd.Dispose();
dbcmd = null;
dbcon.Close();
dbcon = null;
}
}
mcs TestExample.cs -r System.Data.dll
mono C:/cygwin/home/MyHome/mono/install/bin/mcs.exe \ TestExample.cs \ -lib:C:/cygwin/home/MyHome/mono/install/lib \ -r System.Data.dll
mono TestExample.exe