title: Can't connect to MySQL from Visual studio
body: <p>I try to connect to a remote mysql database from VB.NET but i can't figure out how to setup the server because i can;t establish a connection.
  I opened the port 3306, which is accessible with telnet, and the message is "unable to connect to any specified hosts"
  The code is very simple</p>
  
  <pre><code>    MyConn.ConnectionString = "server=" &amp; server &amp; ";" &amp; "database=" &amp; mysqldb &amp; ";" &amp; "uid=" &amp; username &amp; ";" &amp; "password=" &amp; pwd &amp; ";charset=utf8"
      MyConn.Open()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The username is a user with % everyhost and the same connection is ok when i running from localhost
  Can you help me?</p>