VBMySQL.com is pleased to announce the launch of a new projects page at http://projects.vbmysql.com.

The first (and flagship) project is VBMySQLDirect. VBMySQLDirect is a new MySQL C API wrapper written by longtime site contributor Robert Rowe.

VBMySQLDirect is a fork of the MyVbQl API and is available for Visual Basic developers and all Windows developers who have access to COM objects.

VBMySQLDirect offers improved performance over ODBC, and also offers improvements over the previous MyVbQl API in terms of better memory management, BLOB support, and better ADO compatibility. VBMySQLDirect uses a more recent MySQL API as it's basis as well and therefore supports more recent functionality than MyVbQl.

VBMySQLDirect is available at http://projects.vbmysql.com/vbmysqldirect