I've never been much for writing, so it may seem odd that I've created a blog.  Part of my reasoning for creating this blog site is that I want to learn to develop my programming skills in a practical way.  Now I know that most of you that see this site will say "But you didn't program this.   This is from BlogEngine.Net." And you're right, I didn't.  I started this site to see if I could get it to work with MySQL on my Godaddy hosting account.  It was a bit of a challenge but I slowly mad my way through the errors one by one.  Some that are reading this I'm sure would like me to go over what those errors were and how I over came them.  The biggest one that I had problems with was the fact that I needed the MySQL.data.dll in my bin directory (thanks to Jon for pointing that out) and adjust my web.config file to look for that version, beware that the MySQL.Data.dll can be found on the MySQL.com website in one of the connectors packages.  The other big problem that I encountered was that I wanted to use this on the same hosting account that I already had with godaddy.  When I had set up the account and my main site www.jstudios.us I place all the files for the main site in the root directory.  Having this blog site in a child directory made it a challenge for me to get this site to read its web.config file only, it kept wanting to inherit the parent directorys web.config as well (once again thank you Jon for pointing that out).  Now I know you are thinking why not just place both sites in separate directories.  Sounds simple enough, however, when I went to do so I couldn't get my domain name jstudios.us to look at anything other than the root directory as long as it was my primary domain name for the hosting account.  This is where I got a little creative.  I also own the domain jstudios.net.  So I made jstudios.net the promary domain for the account and then I was able to re-add jstudios.us as another domain on my account pointing to a subdirectory with my main site in it contents.  I didn't want my jstudios.net to be left broken and not pointing to my site anymore so I set up a simple html page to redirect the traffic to jstudios.us that way I no longer required a web.config file in my root directory and all my different sites on my account will be able to operate independently.