Just a little help with VS 2005
 

Well, now that work has finally stabilized, I found myself with time to jump on the development band wagon. It's been several years so I'm starting out with VB 2005 Express making front end database tools before I delve back into C++.

I seem to have run into a little snag though. I trolled the VS, mysql and myodbc support to no avail (least I don't think)

All I'm trying to do is tell VS to connect to the peq database. The only connection strings are for MS Sql Express and MS Access. Do I need to manually modify the connection string or make a new connection with the MyODBC tool, or is it done with code? I'm not really looking for an answer here but if anyone can point the way where I can find it, that would be greatly appreciated.

I promise, this will be my last question about general dev here. I'm just at the end of my rope :)

Check out this http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html this is a .Net MySql connector which is used much like you would use a SqlConnection or SqlCommand. I am not sure if they have added in the Visual Designer interface with the latest version or not but I know that programatically it works exactly the same way as the System.Data.SqlClient library does. Hope this helps you some.