Nathan Bridgewater

So for the third and final part of this series, I want to walk through how I ported a very small project I posted on CodePlex awhile back called SiteManager. It is an extremely simplified CMS application that I wrote using Linq to Sql and MVC in order to provide a very basic and easy website tool. It uses membership provider for authentication and Linq to Sql Classes with its database in MS Sql Server. For this walkthrough, I’ll be converting the database to MySql and adapting Linq to Sql to Dblinq so it can completely run on Mono and Linux.

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As the second part of this series, I’ll look at building a website that can use the MySql Membership Provider. This is one of the main hang-ups I’ve run into while porting one of my ASP.NET applications to Mono. With the latest MySql Connector, this turns out to be a very easy thing to do. It’s nearly as simple as setting up your web.config with the correct parameters and getting the right connector version.

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