Connection to MySQL in Visual Studio blocked

Using visual-studio: Connection to MySQL in Visual Studio blocked on newest questions tagged visual-studio – Stack Overflow

I currently have a MySQL installation running on a linux server which I’ve (until now) I only ever used on localhost. I’m now looking to use this database with an application I’m writing in C# and to do so I’ve just installed the MySQL Connector for .NET to connect to it externally in .NET.

When attempting to connect however, I am getting this error message:

I thought it wasn’t setup correctly when it wouldn’t find my database name list, however I can only think that this is down to the setup on the linux server.

It is not limited to local only connections so I cannot see what would be blocking this… could it be the firewall on my machine running the windows application? Let me know if anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening…

EDIT: This isn’t a firewall issue AFAIK.

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7974005/connection-to-mysql-in-visual-studio-blocked
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