"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
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"Adam Clauss" <ca*****@tamu.edu> wrote in message
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Maybe because that one isn't free?
Neither are Windows or C# - what's your point...?
Actually, C# is free. Visual Studio is not. The .NET framework is a free
download. As is Mono (in the event you are runnin *nix).
My point is, you asked why on earth he was trying to use the OleDb driver.
Maybe because he didn't want to spend any more money...
On the other hand, I believe if you dig around the developer section of the
MySQL website, there IS a free ADO.NET library there for MySQL.
Unfortunately, their website seems to be down at the moment so I can't give
the exact link.
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Adam Clauss