I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

Public Function MyFunction(ByVal id As Int) As Object Dim sSQL As New MySqlCommand sSQL.Connection = db1 sSQL.Parameters.AddWithValue("@id", ID) sSQL.CommandText ...