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    This document provides instructions for connecting to a MySQL database from C# code. It explains how to add a reference to the MySql.Data assembly, create a connection string using the MySqlConnectionStringBuilder class, open a connection, execute commands to query and insert data, and close the connection. Code samples are provided to demonstrate these steps.

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    Connecting To The Database From C#

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    This document provides instructions for connecting to a MySQL database from C# code. It explains how to add a reference to the MySql.Data assembly, create a connection string using the MySqlConnectionStringBuilder class, open a connection, execute commands to query and insert data, and close the connection. Code samples are provided to demonstrate these steps.

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    This document provides instructions for connecting to a MySQL database from C# code. It explains how to add a reference to the MySql.Data assembly, create a connection string using the MySqlConnectionStringBuilder class, open a connection, execute commands to query and insert data, and close the connection. Code samples are provided to demonstrate these steps.

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    Connecting to the Database from C#

    What will allow us to work with the data in any MySQL database from C# is a reference to the
    MySql.Data assembly, which is registered into the Global Assembly Cache after the MySQL
    Connector/NET installation. First, create a new Console Application project in Visual C#. You
    may call it MySQLDBConnection or whatever name you decide. Now in the Solution Explorer
    within the Visual C# IDE, ight click on the References folder and choose Add Reference... as
    shown below:

    In the Add Reference dialog box that appears, select the MySQL.Data item from the list:
    Now, after doing that, we must add the using MySql.Data.MySqlClient statement to our
    code in the Visual C# IDE:

    Below you will find the basic lines of code needed to perform the connection to any MySQL
    database from C#:
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    using System;
    using System.Data;
    using System.Data.Common;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Text;
    using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;

    namespace MySQLDBConnection
    {
    class Program
    {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
    MySqlConnectionStringBuilder connBuilder = new
    MySqlConnectionStringBuilder();

    connBuilder.Add("Database", "shop");
    connBuilder.Add("Data Source", "localhost");
    connBuilder.Add("User Id", "root");
    connBuilder.Add("Password", "masterkey");

    MySqlConnection connection = new


    MySqlConnection(connBuilder.ConnectionString);

    MySqlCommand cmd = connection.CreateCommand();

    connection.Open();

    // Here goes the code needed to perform operations on the


    // database such as querying or inserting rows into a table

    connection.Close();
    }
    }
    }

    Notice that I've decided to use the MySqlConnectionStringBuilder class instead of putting
    all the connection items into a single string. This promotes better readability and maintainability
    of your code.

    First, we start by adding a reference to the MySql.Data.MySqlClient namespace in our


    code. Then we create a MySqlConnectionStringBuilder instance and we add pairs of
    name/value items for the database name, data source, user ID and password. After that, we
    create an instance of the MySqlConnection class and we pass the ConnectionString from
    our MySqlConnectionStringBuilder instance as a parameter.

    Let's create the following two methods within the Program class. One is for reading the contents
    of the table we are working with and the other is for appending new data into it.

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    public static void QueryCommand(MySqlCommand cmd)
    {
    cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM article";
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
    MySqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

    while (reader.Read())
    {
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}, {1}, {2}",
    reader.GetInt32(0), reader.GetString(1), reader.GetDouble(2))
    );
    }

    reader.Close();
    }

    public static void InsertCommand(MySqlCommand cmd, string name, double price)


    {
    cmd.CommandText = "append_data";
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

    cmd.Parameters.Add(new MySqlParameter("param_name", name));


    cmd.Parameters.Add(new MySqlParameter("param_price", price));

    cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
    }

    Now let's add some code between


    the connection.Open() and connection.Close() statements to perform some basic
    operations on the database.

    InsertCommand(cmd, "MQ95 Flat Monitor", 399.00);


    QueryCommand(cmd);

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