Introduction

While our default templates designed to work with SQL Server, you can easily modify them to work with MySql. In order to do that, you need to follow below steps.

Download Project

Go to http://aspnetboilerplate.com/Templates and download a new project. Select ASP.NET MVC 5.x tab and don't forget to select Entity Framework.

Install MySql.Data.Entity

Then you need to install MySql.Data.Entity nuget package to your .EntityFramework and .Web projects. Installing this nuget package to your .Web project should make necessary changes in your web.config file.

Open your DbContext's configuration class (Configuration.cs) and place below code in it's constructor

SetSqlGenerator("MySql.Data.MySqlClient", new MySql.Data.Entity.MySqlMigrationSqlGenerator());

Configure ConnectionString

You need to change your connection string in the web.config file in order to work with your MySql database. An example connection string would be

<add name="Default" connectionString="server=localhost;port=3306;database=sampledb;uid=root;password=***" providerName="MySql.Data.MySqlClient"/>

Re-generate migrations

If you choose "Include module zero?" while downloading your startup template, there will be some migration files included in your project but those files are generated for Sql Server. Delete all migration files in your .EntityFramework project under Migrations folder. Migration files start with a timestamp. A migration file name would be like this "201506210746108_AbpZero_Initial"

After deleting all migration files, select your .Web project as startup project, open Visual Studio's Package Manager Console and select .EntityFramework project as default project in Package Manager Console. Then run below command to add migration for MySql.

Add-Migration "AbpZero_Initial"

Now you can create your database using below command

Update-Database

It is all done, now you can run your project with MySql.