Various Questions related to mySQL

Hello, I am in the beginning stages of learning mySQL and C#. I have some questions.

1) How difficult is it to get the .net and CLS architecture that MS has made to work with the open source mySQL?

2) How can I change mySQL so I can dump a file into mySQL using a delimeter of my chosing (for example I would like to use \ as delimeters rather then TABs)

Any help would be very appreciated, thank you.