I am rebuilding a Visual Studio 2008 project in Visual Studio 2013 Express. I installed the latest community version of MySQL for Windows (5.6.14) and even after adding the reference to the newest MySql.Data assembly (6.7.4 version 4.0) the following error appears.
> Warning 1 Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the
> assembly "MySql.Data, Version=6.2.3.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=c5687fc88969c44d, processorArchitecture=MSIL". Check to
> make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference is required
> by your code, you may get compilation errors. OVS1
It's strange that the error message refers to version 6.2.3.0. I then uninstalled Connector/NET which was part of the MySQL for Windows installation and then installed the "stand-alone" version of Connector/NET 6.7.4. The same error message appears. Adding the reference via browsing to the assembly for Connector/NET 6.7.4 version 4.0 also does not seem to install the reference and the same error appears. How do I fix this?
Suspecting it might be that the newest Express IDE is the problem, I did the following.
I uninstalled VS 2013 Express, uninstalled the standalone Connector/NET, uninstalled MySQL for Windows and then installed Visual C# Express 2010 and reinstalled MySQL for Windows 5.6.14. The same problem occurs.
From within Visual Studio or Visual C#, remove the reference to MySql.Data and then add it again.