title: How to connect to Google Cloud SQL from VB.NET?
body: <p>I've created an app using VB.NET and I am planning on making a mobile app that will access the data created by the desktop app I made. So I'm thinking of uploading or publishing the database that the app is using somewhere on the web so that the mobile app I will be making can read that data.</p>
  
  <p>I want to upload it on Google's Cloud SQL service. I am entirely new to this stuff so I did some search for tutorials. Everything that I found was very technical (at least on my pov) and are very hard to follow especially for beginners like me.</p>
  
  <p>So how do I connect to Cloud SQL? Is it as simple as creating a <code>MySqlConnection</code> and setting the connection string's server to the IP Address of my instance of Cloud SQL?</p>