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Asked: 2026-05-15T06:32:34+00:00

I am using MySQL with the .Net connector on 64 bit Windows. For some

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I am using MySQL with the .Net connector on 64 bit Windows. For some reason Mysql is throwing a NullReferenceException in Finalize. This is the problem here and it seems that its due to a bug described here. This bug was reported in 6.22, but I am getting the issue with 6.23 too so apparently it is not fixed.

I am using MySQL both with the helper classes, and by instantiating the connection and the Mysqlcommand object.

Does anybody have any idea what part of my code do I need to change to fix this issue? Cause even though this is a bug in Mysql this is not universal because I am not getting the problem in my other projects. MySQL bug report has no details on how to reproduce it either.

Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you call Dispose on the MySqlConnection (or wrap it in using) then in theory the finalizer should not be called, at least if MySqlConnection was implemented properly.

    If you are doing that and it’s still called you’d have to have a look at the source code and see if it’s doing anything useful. If not, you could call GC.SuppressFinalize() on it. If it is, you could subclass MySqlConnection, override its Finalize() method and swallow the exception thrown by the base method. Obviously, both of those approaches are major hacks and are only workarounds, not fixes.

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