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Russell Smith · Guest

Is there any way to get .Net to use the MySQL ODBC driver on Windows Server
2003 64-bit?

I've installed the MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51.12 driver on Windows Server
2003 64-bit and have tried to access the driver using a C#/.Net program. The
error message reads that the driver is not found. The program works fine on
Windows XP 32-bit.

I can find the driver in %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe, but I am unable
to find a reference to it using Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Data
Sources (ODBC). There is not an entry in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC Drivers for the MySQL
ODBC driver.

I've tried the procedure in the User Comments section of
http://mysql.osuosl.org/doc/refman/5.0/en/myodbc-installation-binary.html.. I
was unable to get it to work, most probably due to misunderstanding the
instructions. I was confused by two of the instructions: "Proceed along the
instructions above, do not use installer.bat" and "Register the driver with
regedit". I did copy the files into the proper directories and attempted to
register the .dlls using regsvr32. The error message from regsvr32 reads:

myodbc3s.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not
found.

This file can not be registered.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Russ