Connector/Net is a managed data provider for the MySQL database system and uses either the .NET framework or the Mono frameowork. While the installer does not require either framework to be installed, the binaries (assemblies) installed do require one of these frameworks.
MySQL Connector/Net is compatible with the Microsoft .NET framework 1.0. and 1.1 and the Mono framework versions 1.0 and later. The connector can also be used successfully with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and Borland C# Builder and Delphi.
MySQL strives to make MySQL Connector/Net compatible with as many publicly available versions of MySQL as possible. The current policy is that Connector/Net will be compatible with all production quality versions of MySQL and the latest pre-release of any future version. Essentially, it is currently compatible with all production versions of MySQL 3.23 and later, 4.0.12 and later, 4.1.7 and later, and 5.0.2 (pre-release).