Strange connection failure (beta 1.0, .NET 1.1)

[Ian Z]

Upon installing the Connector .NET client on my system (Windows XP Pro, MDAC 2.8, .NET 1.1, Connector .NET beta 1.0 using the .NET 1.1 version of the connector) I found that after updating my library references, my application wouldn't connect to the database. I was building a winforms app and no application-level exceptions were thrown, so I added some try/catch blocks around the instantiation of my MySqlConnection object. The try/catch didn't catch any MySqlExceptions. After several hours I decided to try to get it working an a test application that I build from scratch. Here's the source:

namespace test
{
using System;
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;

public class Test
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.Write("STARTING");

string connectionString = "DataSource=xx.xx.xx.xx;Database=xx;Username=xx;Password=xx";

MySqlConnection connection1 = new MySqlConnection(connectionString);

connection1.Open();
connection1.Close();

Console.Write("ENDING");
}
}
}

Obviously, I had to hide the connection string, but I've simply replaced all characters with x's.

My compile command line is as follows:

csc /r:".\bin\MySql.Data.dll" test.cs

I've put the MySql client into a \bin\ folder in my application directory. The compile executes without problem. Just to note, this test application is a simple console app while my main application was a winforms app.

When I run the application from the console I get a "Common Language Runtime Debugging Services" dialog popping up saying "application has generated an exception that could not be handled".

Am I doing something wrong here? Could it be that I need to somehow force the compiler to deal in .NET 1.1 mode or something? I'm stumpped.