Connect to remote MySQL database with Visual C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program

    {




        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Welcome ...!");
            String conString = "SERVER = localhost; DATABASE = l2emu; User ID = root; PASSWORD = password;";

        MySqlConnection  connection = new MySqlConnection(conString);

            String command = "SELECT * FROM characters";
          MySqlCommand  cmd = new MySqlCommand(command,connection);
MySqlDataReader reader;
try
{
    connection.Open();
    cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
    reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
    cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.Text;
    while (reader.Read() != false)
    {

        Console.WriteLine(reader["char_name"]);
        Console.WriteLine(reader["level"]);

    }

    Console.ReadLine();

}
catch (MySqlException MySqlError)
{
    Console.WriteLine(MySqlError.Message);
}

        }
    }
}