Just changed my blog engine from Presstopia (lighter but less features and I frickin' hate VB) to BlogEngineDotNet (more features and C#). Oi that was a pain in the ass. On the up side, I think I've got it set up & working with MySql which my hosting service provides, thanks to this post over here.

If you go that route however note there's some issues with the SQL script, mainly having to do database case sensitivity. At least the installation of MySql my hosting service provides is case-sensitve. I was able to read the source and make the required changes, though. Good thing Real Programmers compile from source.

Unless you're on emacs, then you just use C-x M-c M-butterfly...

[edit: since everything seems to be running without boom, I uploaded the updated SQL script here: setup.sql.zip (3.78 kb). Change the "use blogengine" on the first line to whatever the name of your database is.]