Has anyone used shared memory connections?

[Homam Alsayed]

I tried to use the shared memory connection by adding "protocol=memory" to the connection string, but I'm getting the following exception:

Unhandled Exception: MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts ---> MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlExc
eption: Failed to open shared memory connection
at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.SharedMemoryStream.GetConnectNumber(Int32 timeOut)
at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.SharedMemoryStream.Open(Int32 timeOut)
at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Open()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Open()
at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection.Open()
at TestMySQLSharedMemroy.SharedMemoryTest.Main(String[] args) in c:\testmysqlsharedmemroy\class1.cs:line 30

This is the connection string I'm using:

"server=localhost;user id=myuserid; password=mypassowrd; database=mydb; protocol=memory;"

Has anyone been successful with memory connections?

Thanks!