Dear MySQL users,
The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release
of MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.8.
This is a maintenance release for 1.2.x. It can be used for
production environments.
MySQL for Visual Studio is a product that includes all of the
Visual Studio integration functionality to create and manage
MySQL databases when developing .NET applications.
MySQL for Visual Studio is installed using the MySQL Installer
for Windows which comes in 2 versions:
* Full (386.6 MB) which includes a complete set of MySQL products
with their binaries included in the downloaded bundle.
* Web (1.7 MB – a network install) which will just pull MySQL
for Visual Studio over the web and install it when run.
You can download MySQL Installer from our official Downloads page at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/.
MySQL for Visual Studio can also be downloaded by using the product
standalone installer found at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/visualstudio/.
Changes in MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.8 (2018-05-04, General
Availability)
* Functionality Added or Changed
* Bugs Fixed
Functionality Added or Changed
* When Microsoft Visual Studio receives a request to
register (or unregister) MySQL for Visual Studio within
the IDE during the installation, Visual Studio might not
execute the command properly if the host is running
Windows 7. This fix identifies when Visual Studio does
not register MySQL for Visual Studio as requested and
then provides an alert to perform the registration
manually from the Developer Command Prompt for Visual
Studio using the following command:
devenv /updateconfiguration /log
(Bug #27365261, Bug #87902)
* MySQL for Visual Studio now supports the MySQL 8.0
release series (requires Connector/Net 6.9.12, 6.10.7, or
8.0.11) including:
+ MySQL data dictionary, which uses INFORMATION_SCHEMA
tables rather than tables in the mysql database (see
MySQL Data Dictionary
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-dictionary.html)).
+ The caching_sha2_password authentication plugin
introduced in MySQL 8.0 (see Caching SHA-2 Pluggable
Authentication
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/caching-sha2-pluggable-authentication.html)).
In addition, MySQL for Visual Studio now requires that
.NET Framework 4.5.2 (or later) be installed for use
within Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.
Bugs Fixed
* The Website Configuration Tool was unable to add an
ADO.NET entity data model to an ADO.NET web application
successfully. In addition to aligning the web.config file
with the installed version of Connector/Net, this fix
also disables the Entity Framework 5 selection when the
installed connector no longer includes a provider for EF5
(Connector/Net 6.10 and higher). (Bug #27593219)
* Queries made with a valid MySQL connection received no
response from the server. (Bug #27584991)
* When the MySQL for Visual Studio parser was unable to
parse an SQL statement, it generated an unhandled
exception that caused Visual Studio to exit unexpectedly.
This fix enables the parser to handle exceptions properly
and updates the parser to include support for CREATE USER
syntax in the MySQL 8.0 release series. (Bug #27580303)
* The version for the MySql.Web assembly was incorrectly
extracted, which prevented the assembly from loading
properly and the MySQL Website Configuration Tool from
launching. (Bug #27450530)
* Attempting to open the MySQL Web Configuration Tool, with
MySQL Connector/Net and MySQL for Visual Studio
prerequisites installed properly, displayed an error
message instead of opening the tool. (Bug #27365141, Bug
#88570)
On Behalf of MySQL Release Engineering Team,
Surabhi Bhat