title: Integrating freely available Asp.Net forum with a Asp.net web app on a MySQL DB
body: <p>We have just finished delivering a (large-ish) Asp.Net 3.5 Web Application project which uses MySQL as the database.</p>
  
  <p>We have used the MySQL Membership Provider along with SubSonic 2.2 to finish the project in.</p>
  
  <p>However, now the client wants a Forum to go along with the website - such that when a user signs up into our site, an ID is also created on the forum.</p>
  
  <p>(It is <strong>not</strong> necessary for the login session to transfer to the forum - so that a user will have to re-login when he tries to access the forum - but the credentials need to be created forum side also)</p>
  
  <p>Instead of building a forum, we are looking to port an existing solution and just bind the membership creation process. However, most forums (YAF.net, etc) are on the MS-SQL database which is causing an issue.</p>
  
  <p>At best (last option), I could get a SQL Express server installed for YAF.
  But just wanted to see what other alternatives are there and whether we could somehow use  the existing MySQL database to get our stuff done. What would you guys have done if you were in a similar situation?</p>
  
  <p>Any help / pointing-in-a-direction is greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Saurabh</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>PS: The forum can be the simplest forum there can be.
  More of a discussion board.</p>