如何在 ASP.NET MVC 3 应用程序中通过 Linq 查询 MySQL 数据库？

Question

I need to query a MySQL database from my C# ASP.NET MVC 3 application, and I figure it's best done via Linq. I'm not sure how it's done however, my current impression is that only Microsoft SQL is directly supported by Linq. So how can I query MySQL via Linq in the ASP.NET MVC 3 context (in C#)?

EDIT: Note I would definitely prefer that any dependencies were installable with NuGet, as all my current dependencies are installed this way.

Answer 1

You are correct, LINQ to SQL is for SQL Server. However, the LINQ provider mechanism is open, there is a MySQL version called DBLinq:

http://www.mikeborozdin.com/post/LINQ-To-MySQL.aspx

You could always use an ORM tool like NHibernate, which works against MySQL. NHibernate then has it's own LINQ support:

http://ayende.com/blog/4083/nhibernate-linq-1-0-released

Answer 2

You could also use SauceDB, it has support for sql server, sqlite, postgre, and mysql. Among other feature it does support linq style queries.

http://sauce.codeplex.com

Disclamer: I Wrote it.