Question

Say I have a connection to a database. After reading some stuff I want to connect to the same database. So I naturally use the first database mysqlconnection.serverstring

Well guess what, the password and username is not included in connect1.ConnectionString. So how can I do so? Is this by design?

      Using connect1 As New MySqlConnection(ConnectLocalhost.serverString)
            connect1.Open()
bla bla bla
                Using connect2 As New MySqlConnection(connect1.ConnectionString) ' this won't work
                    connect2.Open()
                End Using

Answer 1

You need to put Persist Security Info = true in your original connection string otherwise it won’t be read back.

Course if you do that you might as well not have a user name and password…