How can I dump some of the tables from my mysql database into an sql file in C#? Is there a class which does this?
UPDATE: just wanted to mention to DO NOT USE mysqldump, because this application will be installed on many computers and the mysql folder could be on different places.
Dotconnect for mysql might have this feature, but I don't know about the free version.
Otherwise you could just invoke the mysqldump utility and do something like this:
public void DumpMySQLDb(string user, string password, string database, string outputFile) {
var commandLine = string.Format("mysqldump --user={1}--password={2} --hex-blob --databases {3}",
user, password, database)
var process = new Process();
process.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo {
FileName = "cmd",
Arguments = string.Format( "/c \"{0}\" > {1}", commandLine, outputFile )
};
process.Start();
}