Miscellany

 using System;
 using System.Data;
// using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
using ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient;
 
 public class Test
 {
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
       string connectionString =
          "Server=10.0.0.67;" +
          "Database=test;" +
          "User ID=test;" +
//          "Password=test;" +
          "Pooling=false";
       IDbConnection dbcon;
       dbcon = new MySqlConnection(connectionString);
       dbcon.Open();
       IDbCommand dbcmd = dbcon.CreateCommand();
       // requires a table to be created named employee
       // with columns firstname and lastname
       // such as,
       //        CREATE TABLE employee (
       //           firstname varchar(32),
       //           lastname varchar(32));
       string sql =
           "SELECT firstname, lastname " +
           "FROM employee";
       dbcmd.CommandText = sql;
       IDataReader reader = dbcmd.ExecuteReader();
       while(reader.Read()) {
            string FirstName = (string) reader["firstname"];
            string LastName = (string) reader["lastname"];
            Console.WriteLine("Name: " +
                  FirstName + " " + LastName);
       }
       // clean up
       reader.Close();
       reader = null;
       dbcmd.Dispose();
       dbcmd = null;
       dbcon.Close();
       dbcon = null;
    }
 }








[killfill@delly ~/Desktop]$ mono mysql.exe 

Unhandled Exception: ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is known
  at System.Net.Dns.hostent_to_IPHostEntry (System.String h_name, System.String[] h_aliases, System.String[] h_addrlist) [0x00000] 
  at System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName (System.String hostName) [0x00000] 
  at ByteFX.Data.Common.StreamCreator.GetStream (Int32 timeOut) [0x00000] 
  at ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.Driver.Open (ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnectionString settings) [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.Driver.Open (ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnectionString settings) [0x00000] 
  at ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlInternalConnection.Open () [0x00000] 
  at ByteFX.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection.Open () [0x00000] 


[killfill@delly ~/Desktop]$ ping 10.0.0.67
PING 10.0.0.67 (10.0.0.67): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.67: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.161 ms