Connect to MYSQL with VB.NET

I am trying to connect to a MYSQL database using VB.NET to handle some simple tasks at a page level. Usually the connections are made to a MYSQL database. I have downloaded a MYSQL-CONNECTOR 6.0.7. How do I reference or add this to my web project so that I can create the connection and use the provided methods?

In the unzipped开发者_Python百科 package I download I do not see any dll files so not sure what to do with this ATM, I am used to seeing a bin folder which contains this. Maybe I have a bad download any suggestions?

If you downloaded the ZIP archive, then generally this is the source code distribution. You need to open MySQLClient.sln in Visual Studio and build the MySql.Data project to produce MySql.Data.dll in the bin folder.

the last version is 6.4.3 download from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/ , add reference for the unzip folder and us it as sqlClient it has the same class only have to append My to the class name