installing the mysql connector (no replies)

I downloaded mysql-connector-net-6.4.4-src.zip to my c: drive. It has some help files with a "aml" extension, which is completely unknown to my PC. It also has some files with xml in them, (I paste an example at the bottom). My question is this, given that I have Microsoft's free "visual web developer", I want that program to find the mysql connector so that it can communicate with mysql. This should happen on my local development PC (which is not a server). I am told it is already installed on the server. But for development, how do I get the mysql connector to be recognized? Here is one of the xml files:
<membership defaultProvider="MySQLMembershipProvider">
- <providers>
<add name="MySqlMembershipProvider" type="MySql.Web.Security.MySQLMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="LocalMySqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Encrypted" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="3" passwordAttemptWindow="20" minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters="1" minRequiredPasswordLength="11" applicationName="MyApplication" />
</providers>
</membership>