Visual Studio Integration

The Mimer SQL Data Provider is written entirely in C#. I.e. the code is safe.

Documentation and help

Documentation and help integration into Microsoft Help Viewer is installed with the provider installation, and is not dependent on Visual Studio.
The documentation is included as part of the documentation set that shows up in Visual Studio.
Dynamic help is supported. I.e. if the cursor is on a Mimer-object in the source code, the dynamic help window shows links to the documentation.

A Visual Studio extension named Mimer SQL Data Provider for Visual Studio is available on Visual Studio Marketplace and supports Visual Studio 2022 and later. It is not included in the provider installation.
When the extension is installed, the provider is integrated with Visual Studio Server Explorer. This allows the Mimer SQL Data Provider to be used to explore Mimer SQL servers configured on the machine.

A Mimer.Data.Designer45.dll assembly is included both as a standalone assembly in the provider installation, and in the nuget package. When referenced by a .NET Framework project, it includes the MimerDataAdapter, MimerConnection, MimerCommand, and MimerCommandBuilder objects that can be used on forms. How to do this is described in Visual Studio Toolbox customization. When a MimerDataAdapter is dropped on a form, a wizard is automatically invoked which helps to configure the MimerDataAdapter. The wizard is also available by right-clicking on the MimerDataAdapter in the component tray.
By right-clicking on the MimerDataAdapter it is also possible to generate a typed data set or to preview the data selected by the adapter.
The TableMappings property on the MimerDataAdapter has a special dialog used to edit the mapping of names.
The ConnectionString property of the MimerConnection object has a dialog which allows the connection string to be built and tested by filling in values in a property grid.
Customized display of properties when a Mimer-object is present in the component tray for a form.
It also allows the Mimer SQL Data Provider to be used as data source for many different Windows Controls such as a System.Windows.Forms.BindingSource.