weird issue

[David Marchbanks]

I'm trying to develop a program. For a while I thought I was just doing something horribly wrong. But I've tried re-doing everything a couple times now. Examples inside the connector work but mine don't, and I'm getting a bit frustrated.

I'm using Visual Studio Express 2009 and I have everything linked and I receive NO compile errors. However, when I try to connect, I get strange characters, as well as strange characters when I query the mysql driver.

Here is the source of my current test enviroment.

#include <mysql_connection.h>
#include <mysql_driver.h>
#include <cppconn/driver.h>
#include <cppconn/exception.h>
#include <cppconn/resultset.h>
#include <cppconn/statement.h>


#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
try {
sql::mysql::MySQL_Driver *driver=sql::mysql::get_mysql_driver_instance();

cout << "# " << driver->getName() << ", version ";
cout << driver->getMajorVersion() << "." << driver->getMinorVersion();
cout << "." << driver->getPatchVersion() << endl;

sql::Driver *driver2=::get_driver_instance();
cout << "# " << driver2->getName() << ", version ";
cout << driver2->getMajorVersion() << "." << driver2->getMinorVersion();
cout << "." << driver2->getPatchVersion() << endl;

cout << "Trying to connect locally..." << endl;
sql::Connection *con=driver->connect("tcp://localhost","root","password");

}
catch(sql::SQLException &e) {
cout << e.what() << endl;
cout << e.getSQLState() << endl;
}
return 0;
}

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Here is the output

# ▲ ▼ ☺ , version 1.0.3
# ▲ ▼ ☺ , version 1.0.3

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What am I doing wrong?