C# Example in http://www.mono-project.com/docs/database-access/providers/odbc/

mysqlodbc.cs

 using System;
 using System.Data;
 using System.Data.Odbc;
 
 public class Test
 {
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // have an ODBC DSN setup named MYSQLDSN
        // that accesses a MySQL database via
        // MyODBC driver for ODBC with a
        // hostname of localhost and database test
       string connectionString =
          "DSN=MYSQLDSN;" +
          "UID=myuserid;" +
          "PWD=mypassword";
       IDbConnection dbcon;
       dbcon = new OdbcConnection(connectionString);
       dbcon.Open();
       IDbCommand dbcmd = dbcon.CreateCommand();
       // requires a table to be created named employee
       // with columns firstname and lastname
       // such as,
       //        CREATE TABLE employee (
       //           firstname varchar(32),
       //           lastname varchar(32));
       string sql =
           "SELECT firstname, lastname " +
           "FROM employee";
       dbcmd.CommandText = sql;
       IDataReader reader = dbcmd.ExecuteReader();
       while(reader.Read()) {
            string FirstName = (string) reader["firstname"];
            string LastName = (string) reader["lastname"];
            Console.WriteLine("Name: " +
                FirstName + " " + LastName);
       }
       // clean up
       reader.Close();
       reader = null;
       dbcmd.Dispose();
       dbcmd = null;
       dbcon.Close();
       dbcon = null;
    }
 }