Here is how its done. We use the DataContext that came with and used by Linq2Sql.

        public class RawData
        {
            public int MyId { get; set; }
            public string Name { get; set; }
        }

        DataContext dc = new DataContext(new MySqlConnection(connString));
        IEnumerable<RawData> rd =
            dc.ExecuteQuery<RawData>("select myid, name from mytable where myid > ?",5);

And thats it. All the data from the mytable database table will get pushed into the IEnumerable<RawData> variable. As long as the names of the columns are the same as the class then this will work. This ExecuteQuery method also takes a parameters object argument which will replace the question marks with the variables specified.

It makes it very easy, especially since there isn’t a very good linq 2 mysql option out there yet and Entity Framework still doesn’t support it.

Cheers,
Adam