System.NullReference on connection.Open for 5.0.2?

[Leonardo Carbajal]

Greetings,

I've been using the .NET connector without (too many) issues. Up until recently i'd been using 1.0.7 and then lately 1.0.8.

Recently, however, I changed the DLL version to 5.0.2 and all of a sudden my program throws NullReference exceptions when attempting to open up a connection thusly:

if(dbCon.State.ToString()== "Closed")
{
dbCon.Open();
}
dbReader = command.ExecuteReader();

It doesn't actually get to the dbReader part, but I threw it in for completeness.

Now if dbCon was null or not set, wouldn't the Exception reference the line with the If statement, rather than the line with the Open() method? I am really, really confused. If I go in and switch the DLL version back to 1.0.8 then everything runs beautifully.

What am I missing? Are Connection strings different?
"Server=localhost;database=monomud;user id=xxx;Password=xxx;pooling=true";
Is what i'm using.

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