Hope I am not asking this on the wrong forum, but I have no idea where to look elsewhere (and this forum has been my recue many, many times).

I am trying to develop a new VB.net application with Visual Studio 2019. I cannot add a connection to my application. When I connect (local host and root) it creates a connection, but if I want to open the table folder I get an error "character set 'utf8mb3' is not supported by .Net. However my Mysql database does not use that (it is utf8mb4). What am I missing. I recently updated to a new MYQLconnector (8.0.33.) I am using MYSQL 8.

Any ideas would be much appreciated