title: Visual Studio Xampp data connection
body: <p>I want to add a data connection in Visual Studio 2013. I want to use Xampp for hosting my database on localhost. I seted up my database with phpmyadmin. Now i want to add a connection in VS.</p>
  
  <p>Under server explorer i choose add new data connection. I choose the micorosoft odbc data structure. Next i wanted to build a new connection string. But i cannot find a Mysql odbc driver for that.
  So i downloaded it directly from mysql <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/" rel="nofollow">http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/</a> and installed it. I tried to restart my computer and VS but this driver still doesnt appear.</p>