A new question has been posted to the AskMonty Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/connecting-to-a-mariadb-database-with-visual-basic... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have tried everything I know how to do -- to connect to an existing mariadb database with visual basic 2010 express. Can anyone give me any ideas on how to get a proper start. I am trying to connect to the localdb server created by heidi, which is a tcp/ip . Microsoft SQL server is installed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org