I am trying to load a large collection of data lines to a MYSQL database. The database is created and is local and is visible in MYSQL workbench. I have installed MySQL Connector and mySQL is visible in the solution explorer . I am getting a ambiguity error, and 2 others - see below.

I have followed (I think) the MS instructions with this code :

Public Sub Init()
Dim MySqlClient As String = "MySQL84"
Dim mySQLConnectionString As String

mySQLConnectionString = "server=127.0.0.1:3306;" & "uid=root;" & "pwd=1212Tyke!;" & "database=pooldata;"

Dim conn As New MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlConnection(mySQLConnectionString)
conn.ConnectionString = mySQLConnectionString

Try
conn.open()
MsgBox("Connected to database")

Catch ex As Exception 'errorString 'MySql.Data.MySqlClient.MySqlException

End Try
End Sub

I get the following 3 errors

'Data' is ambiguous in the namespace 'ConsolidatedPoolData.MySql'.
'connectionstring' is not a member of 'MySqlConnection'.
'open' is not a member of 'MySqlConnection'.