Ok, I got it solved with help of #mono ppl. I had to add ByteFX.Data.dll (0.75) and SharpZip lib to gac manually, after that it started to work. 0.76 doesn't do the trick though, seems like namespaces in ByteFX.MySqlClient had changed - I hope it will be fixed in next beta. artb. -- only so many songs can be sung with two lips two lungs and one tongue