.NET & MySQL Part 1

I’m currently working on a project which requires the use of Visual Studio 2008, MySQL Server, some PHP, and a webserver.
Herewith a list of software that is required, recommended or optional at this stage of the game.

Note: The developer machine is running on Windows XP SP3

Microsoft Products:
• Microsoft IIS – Internet Information Server 5.1 – This can be found on the MS XP Pro Installation CD
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• MDAC 2.8 SP1
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Recommended:
• Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable
• Windows Installer 4.5 Software Development Kit

Optional:
• Utility: MDAC Component Checker
• MDAC 2.8 SDK

Note:
• MDAC 2.8 is already part of Windows XP

MySQL:
• MySQL Community Server 5.1
• MySQL Connector/Net 5.2

Recommended:
• MySQL GUI Tools A single bundle including all GUI tools (MySQL Administrator, MySQL QueryBrowser and MySQL MigrationToolkit)

Optional:
• MySQL Workbench 5

PHP:
• PHP 5.2.9-1 for Windows

Optional
• phpMyAdmin 3.1.3 An alternative, if you don’t want to use MySQL Administrator

Other Web Server
• Apache Web Server An alternative to MS IIS

Recommended:
• Toad for MySQL A database development and administration tool.

In the next post we will have a more in-depth look on how to install some of the software mentioned above.

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