unable to connect VS 2013 ro MySQL database (1 reply)

Hi, I am developing a database management system in VS 2013. I need to connect to the database. I was able to do it before or should i say, the connection was working before. But for some reason i started getting the error "The system detected an invalid pointer address in attempting to use a pointer argument in a call" every time my project tries to connect to the database.

-MySQL workbench version is 6.2.2
-VS 2013 express
-MySQL connector 6.9.3
-MySQL server 5.1

I already tried re-installing the applications but to no avail.