.NET & fields of type text

[Simone Lippolis]

I'm workin' with c# on .net with a mySql database. I use mySqlCs drivers to connect to the db server.
I have a problem reading fields of type "text", my application always returns me a System.Byte string, it seems that my application is not able to correctly read data from database.
Here is a code snippet:

MySQLConnection mysqlconn = new MySQLConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["Conn"]);
mysqlconn.Open();
string sql = "SELECT XmlTemplate FROM " + ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["DbPrefix"] + "xmlTemplate WHERE Id = 1 LIMIT 0,1";
MySQLCommand cmd = new MySQLCommand(sql,mysqlconn);
MySQLDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReaderEx();
while (dr.Read())
{
Response.Write(dr["XmlTemplate"].ToString());
}
mysqlconn.Close();

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Any known issues? I was not able to find anything about this.
Thank you in advance,
Simone