Made MySQL the default named pipe name

Now SHOW COLLATION is used upon connection to retrieve the full list of charset ids

Fixed Invalid character set index: 200 (Bug #6547)

Installer now includes options to install into GAC and create Start Menu items

Bug #6863 - Int64 Support in MySqlCommand Parameters [fixed]

Connections now do not have to give a database on the connection string

Bug #6770 - MySqlDataReader.GetChar(int i) throws IndexOutOfRange Exception [fixed]

Fixed problem where multiple resultsets having different numbers of columns would cause a problem

Bug #6983 Exception stack trace lost when re-throwing exceptions [fixed]

Fixed major problem with detecting null values when using prepared statements

Bug #6902 Errors in parsing stored procedure parameters [fixed]

Bug #6668 Integer "out" parameter from stored procedure returned as string [fixed]

Bug #7032 MySqlDateTime in Datatables sorting by Text, not Date. [fixed]

Bug #7133 Invalid query string when using inout parameters [fixed]

Bug #6831 Test suite fails with MySQL 4.0 because of case sensitivity of table names [fixed]

Bug #7132 Inserting DateTime causes System.InvalidCastException to be thrown [fixed]

Bug #6879 InvalidCast when using DATE_ADD-function [fixed]

Bug #6634 An Open Connection has been Closed by the Host System [fixed]

Added ServerThread property to MySqlConnection to expose server thread id

Added Ping method to MySqlConnection

Changed the name of the test suite to MySql.Data.Tests.dll