using MySql.Data;
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;

namespace Data
{
    public class DBConnection
    {
        private DBConnection()
        {
        }

        private string databaseName = string.Empty;
        public string DatabaseName
        {
            get { return databaseName; }
            set { databaseName = value; }
        }

        public string Password { get; set; }
        private MySqlConnection connection = null;
        public MySqlConnection Connection
        {
            get { return connection; }
        }

        private static DBConnection _instance = null;
        public static DBConnection Instance()
        {
            if (_instance == null)
                _instance = new DBConnection();
           return _instance;
        }

        public bool IsConnect()
        {
            bool result = true;
            if (Connection == null)
            {
                if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(databaseName))
                    result = false;
                string connstring = string.Format("Server=localhost; database={0}; UID=UserName; password=your password", databaseName);
                connection = new MySqlConnection(connstring);
                connection.Open();
                result = true;
            }

            return result;
        }

        public void Close()
        {
            connection.Close();
        }
    }
}

var dbCon = DBConnection.Instance();
dbCon.DatabaseName = "YourDatabase";
if (dbCon.IsConnect())
{
    //suppose col0 and col1 are defined as VARCHAR in the DB
    string query = "SELECT col0,col1 FROM YourTable";
    var cmd = new MySqlCommand(query, dbCon.Connection);
    var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
    while(reader.Read())
    {
        string someStringFromColumnZero = reader.GetString(0);
        string someStringFromColumnOne = reader.GetString(1);
        Console.WriteLine(someStringFromColumnZero + "," + someStringFromColumnOne);
    }
}

PM> Install-Package MySql.Data

private void Initialize()
    {
        server = "localhost";
        database = "connectcsharptomysql";
        uid = "username";
        password = "password";
        string connectionString;
        connectionString = "SERVER=" + server + ";" + "DATABASE=" +
        database + ";" + "U`enter code here`ID=" + uid + ";" + "PASSWORD=" + password + ";";

        connection = new MySqlConnection(connectionString);
    }

protected readonly static string Server = "server";
protected readonly static string UserName = "username";
protected readonly static string Password = "password";
protected readonly static string Database = "database";
protected readonly static string Port = "port";


public readonly string config = string.Format("Server = {0}; Port = {1}; Database = {2}; Uid = {3}; Pwd = {4}; pooling = true; Allow Zero Datetime = False; Min Pool Size = 0; Max Pool Size = 200; ", Server, Port, Database, UserName, Password);

using (var con = new MySqlConnection { ConnectionString = config })
{
    con.Open();
}