MySql.Data.MySqlClient Namespace in ASP.Net

[Srikanth Nair]

Hello,
I did see the post for this issue in VS.Net, but I am writing a simple asp.net page to see how good the connector is.

At present, everything is on my local box.

I downloaded and installed the connector (straightforward process) and opened a new page in ASP.Net Web Matrix (Language - VB.Net) with this import statement along with the standard system one's.

<%@ import Namespace="MySql.Data.MySqlClient" %>

I get this error : BC30002: Type 'MySqlConnection' is not defined

I am new to asp.net and am not really sure how to troubleshoot this issue.

I have been successful in using the ODBC provider in .Net to connect to my MySQL server and it's been working fine. I just figured that the MySQL.Net connector would have better performance and feature sets.

Any help by anyone would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much
Sri