MySQL Bugs: #69296: Connection dialog closes when anything is selected or typed

Bug #69296	Connection dialog closes when anything is selected or typed
Submitted:	21 May 2013 17:15	Modified:	27 Jun 2013 15:43
Reporter:	Travis Stewart	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / NET	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	6.6.5	OS:	Windows (XP)
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	connector, Connector/Net, visual studio 2010

Description:
This problem seems to have been reported before, back in 2006, and was eventually closed but does not seem to have been fixed.

This was the original bug:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23071&thanks=3&notify=67

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Premium to do some ASP.NET development. I installed the Connector/Net 6.6.5 and tried to add my database using the Add Connection option in the Server Explorer. Whenever I type on any of the fields it closes. From the comments on the previous bug report, there is a message that says it was patched long ago, but from the comments it seems that people continue to have this problem.

How to repeat:
To reproduce:
1. Start Visual Studio 2010
2. Open Server Explorer
3. Right Click Data Connections, select the "Add Connection" option
4. Select "MySQL Database" and the .NET framework provider for mySQL for the data provider and then continue  
5. Type something in any of the text boxes and it closes

Suggested fix:
None, supposedly patched already.

Hi,

This is difficult to reproduce, meanwhile, we are looking for a workaround...

Can you check if the tag DbProviderFactories and its contents is well formed (all tags closed), its inside machine.config file, inside tag system.data.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".