无法从C＃Windows应用程序连接到MySQL

Question

I implement an C# windows application and I always connected to sql server for testing. Now I would like to connect it to the MySQL on hosting server to link some booking data from my website. I use the same address and port that shows on the url when I connect to the phpMyAdmin. And this is my configuration in my application.

private string connectionStr = "SERVER=203.78.yyy.xx;PORT=2082;DATABASE=db_name;UID=user;PASSWORD=password;";

But I always receive the timeout exception and I don't know what is the problem exactly. I also tried to connect with phpMyAdmin on my localhost and it works fine.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

To be able to connect using Server Explorer I had to install an ADO.NET driver MySQL .NET Connector

To connect via code, I was adding a reference to MySql.Data.dll and connection string such as

"Server=myServerAddress;Port=1234;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword;"

And I was getting the timeout too, but only when the data was rather big. The problem was with TCP/IP ports and the solution I found is in here , also checkout this blog