Apologies if my terminology is off, I'm new to C#. I'm trying to use an ApplicationContext file to store mysql conn values, like dbname, username, password. The class with mysql conn string is "using" the namespace for the ApplicationContext, but when I print out the connection string, the values are making it.

A friend said, "I'm not initializing it" but couldn't stay to expand on what "it" was.

and the "Console.WriteLine("1");" in ApplicationContext.cs never shows up. Do I need to create an ApplicationContext object and the call Initialize() on that object?

Thanks for any help.

ApplicationContext.cs:

namespace NewApplication.Context
{
    class ApplicationContext
    {
        public static string serverName;
        public static string username;
        public static string password;

        public static void Initialize()
        {
            //need to read through config here

            try
            {

                Console.WriteLine("1");
                XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
                xDoc.Load(".\\Settings.xml");
                XmlNodeList serverNodeList = xDoc.GetElementsByTagName("DatabaseServer");
                XmlNodeList usernameNodeList = xDoc.GetElementsByTagName("UserName");
                XmlNodeList passwordNodeList = xDoc.GetElementsByTagName("Password");

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
                //TODO: Future write to log file
                username = "user";
                password = "password";
                serverName = "localhost";
            }
        }
    }
}

MySQLManager.cs: note: dbname is the same as the username as you'll see in the code, I copied this from a friend who does that.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using MySql.Data;
using MySql.Data.MySqlClient;
using NewApplication.Context;


namespace NewApplication.DAO
{
    class MySQLManager
    {
        private static MySqlConnection conn;
        public static MySqlConnection getConnection()
        {
            if (conn == null || conn.State == System.Data.ConnectionState.Closed)
            {
                string connStr = "server=" + ApplicationContext.serverName +
                    ";user=" + ApplicationContext.username + ";database=" + ApplicationContext.username + ";port=3306;password=" +
                    ApplicationContext.password + ";";
                conn = new MySqlConnection(connStr);
                try
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Connecting to MySQL... ");
                    Console.WriteLine("Connection string:  " + connStr + "\n");
                    conn.Open();
                    // Perform databse operations


                    // conn.Close();
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
                }
            }
            return conn;
        }
    }
}

and, thanks for still reading, this is the code that uses the two previous files:

class LogDAO
{
    MySqlConnection conn;

    public LogDAO()
    {
        conn = MySQLManager.getConnection();
}

Thank you, rd42