将VB.NET连接到MySQL数据库

Question

I have a VB.NET application and I need it to be able to display rows from a MySQL database. How would I do this?

Update: Another thing that I could do is have the app get a PHP page from the site that shows the DB, and gets the page every 10 seconds or so.

Answer 1

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/dotnet/

That presents you with a couple of options, with connection code samples.

Answer 2

You can use the MySQL Connector which you can get from here . The bottom part of this article describes how to install the connector and connect to the MySQL database. This link shows some examples of connection strings.