Connection failing after being idle for several hours

[Steve Klett]

Hello all,

I'm using connector version 5.0.3

I have noticed in the last 3-4 weeks that if my desktop application is left idle for several hours (not sure exactly how long) and I try to perform an operation that will require a DB hit, I get the following exception:

"MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException: Connection unexpectedly terminated."

I'm using an OR/Mapper called EntitySpaces and I setup my connection string like so:

connectionString="Server=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;Database=xxx;Uid=xxx;Pwd=xxx"

Pretty standard...

Anyone have any ideas? Is there anything that was changed in version 5.0.3 that could cause something like this?

Thanks for reading and for any help you can offer,
Steve