Comment A possible alternative - Delphi? (Score 1) 266
As a self-employed database developer (for 10 years) I've been using Borland's Delphi to talk to MySQL.
Although Delphi is not open source, I prefer it to the typical MS Access / VB answer for Windows platforms, and Delphi has a very mature IDE (developer interface) which is most important when building lots of applications.
Although Delphi is not open source, I prefer it to the typical MS Access / VB answer for Windows platforms, and Delphi has a very mature IDE (developer interface) which is most important when building lots of applications.