The Mimer SQL Data Provider is tightly integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio. The current release supports Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2019, and Visual Studio 2022. Older versions of the provider supports earlier versions of Visual Studio. If needed, different versions of the Mimer SQL Data Provider can be installed in parallel. When several versions are present only the latest one is present in machine.config. In the global assembly cache they are all present in parallel.

In the Visual Studio integration the following areas are covered:

• The provider is integrated with Visual Studio Data Explorer. This allows the Mimer SQL Data Provider to be used as data source for many different Windows Controls such as a System.Windows.Forms.BindingSource. The Data Explorer works with both the full Framework versions and the .NET Compact Framework version.
• 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.
• The classes MimerDataAdapter, MimerConnection, MimerCommand, and MimerCommandBuilder objects 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.
• The Mimer SQL Data Provider is written entirely in C#. I.e. the code is safe.