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Nowadays customers wanted to have low cost product , its highly difficult when its come to Microsoft product as all are costly.<br />
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Please let me know &nbsp;can the .Net code can be communicated with MySQL or any other free DB so that customer need not to buy SQL server to make the application working.
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Nowadays customers wanted to have low cost product , its highly difficult when its come to Microsoft product as all are costly.

Please let me know  can the .Net code can be communicated with MySQL or any other free DB so that customer need not to buy SQL server to make the application working.

Can C# app linked to MySql or any other free db tool?

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