I previously wrote a post about configuring MySQL for use with a Microsoft MVC application. I noticed after publishing that my application could not connect to the database and returned the following exception: System.ArgumentException: The ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘MySql.Data.MySqlClient’ is either not registered in the machine or application config file, or could not be …
Even though we are using a Microsoft framework (MVC) and ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) we may not want to connect to a Microsoft Database. In my case I am going to connect to a MySQL database which means I have to configure MySQL for use in my project. I had to download the latest version …
The web hosting provider I am using is GoDaddy and I chose Windows hosting since some of my ideas include developing web applications using Microsoft technologies. The following explains how I set up my first web project I am in the process of developing, which was my tracker application. The first step is to get the web …
Well, today I was doing some experimenting and investigating how I could get my Tracker application published to a subdomain through automation instead of manually copying the files every time. It’s only an MVC template right now but I wanted to be able to test that the default functionality was going to work with my web …
What is an application without some sort of storage mechanism behind the scenes? Above represents my database design which I am going to go into more details about. At the heart of the database is the User table which stores user information and associates a reading list, measurement, or golf round with a corresponding user such …
