title: Question about Visual Studio and MySQL connectivity
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  <p>I have installed XAMPP, which includes MySQL version 5.</p>
  
  <p>I need to connect to this database from C#, but when I try to add a data source in Visual Studio it doesn't have a provider for MySQL version 5.</p>
  
  <p>What do I need in order to accomplish this?</p>