Save chinese characters from ASP.net I get ???????

[Helen Zhao]

I use ASP.net webform enter Chinese characters, it is OK. pass the SQL insert statement that contains Chinese characters from ASP.net to VB class, it is OK. Execute the statement from VB class I get ???. Execute the same statement from MySQL query Browser - everything is ok and it stores good data. I added charset=utf8 to connection string.

show variables like 'char%';

character_set_client utf8
character_set_connection utf8
character_set_database utf8
character_set_server utf8

Also added init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' to my.ini

But I cann't solve the problem. Can anyone helps me?