Deploy MySQL Server + DB with .Net application

Question

HI All,

We have a .Net 2.0 application which has a MySQL backend. We want to be able to deploy MySQl and the DB when we install the application and im trying to find

Answer 1

We took a different approach on this. We make MySQL xcopy-able, by writting a wrapper to generate the configuration file(my.ini) before calling MySQL (to correctly setup the base path and so on). Then we written another service installed using the standard setup. This service will take care of starting MySQL and other required background program (in our case Apache) for us. Since the MySQL is deploy by us, we wanted to have full control over it.