As Microsoft woos open source folks to embrace SQL Server, Oracle is hitting back by enticing Windows developers to MySQL.

News MySQL Gives .NET High Five By John K. Waters 06/02/2008 There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open ...

That support takes the form of a .NET data connector that's officially maintained and supported by MySQL and the Visual Studio integration for which the company received the conference award.

This new Visual Studio plug-in is going to make life much easier for those that have to jump between a command line or MySQL Administrator in order to take care of their MySQL business.

To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin announced a new streamlined experience for installing Xamarin from Visual ...