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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Since not all my posts will contain a feature image I had to find a work around that would allow the text content to show properly in the slider. In order to do this I added a very tiny white square as my featured image. When it first displayed the caption for the post was
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Ahh, it is so nice to have completed my Masters and be able to focus on some personal projects I have been pondering. The first was this website and the second is a tracker application. I have been using an Excel spreadsheet I store on Google Drive for tracking various things, which does work pretty
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Overview Ever since I decided to start up my own website (again) with the intent of having it for a long time I knew there were two key things I needed to do, besides the content itself. The first was to come up with my domain name and the second was to find a WordPress
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