Yes I'm aware of that argument. :-)

But I should be able to do it and would like to know what I'm missing.

>I don't know the answer to your question, Nick (sorry!), but I have a question for you. What do you plan to use the Server Explorer for? In all my years of writing .NET apps (and I started back in early 2002), I have never used, nor never needed to use, the Server Explorer. IMHO, drag-and-drop programming of DataAccess (and DataSets) doesn't work all that well. I've done all that with my own classes, not the crud that the designer generates for that.
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>Drag-and-drop is for the GUI layout of controls only ... again, my opinion, but shared by others also.
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>Sorry ...
>SET SOAPBOX OFF
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>~~Bonnie
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>>Hi
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>>I want to use mysql but I can't work out how to get a connection to my Mysql server in my VisualStudio.
>>I know its running as I can use it in Mysql workbench.
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>>I found this link http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/visual-studio-plugin/index.html to a vsiaul studio plugin installer but it doesn't seem to connect .
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>>I also found mysql connector aT http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/
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>>which seems to be examples but doesn't show me how to actually get mysql to be in my server explorer.
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>>Anyone got any ideas ?
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>>Nick