This is a portfolio project demonstrating how I typically would try to write a Microsoft MVC application, if I ever get the opportunity to control all the things. (Yes, that's rare.)

• Visual Studio 2013
• SQL Express 2012, installed locally or aliased as .\SQLExpress
• Database catalog named Portfolio_development.

There's a database project in the solution and a schema compare all ready to go. Run the schema compare against your database target, and you should be set.

The unit tests are written in NUnit. You will need to have the NUnit GUI runner, or the ability to run the tests from within Visual Studio. I use ReSharper. A few of the tests will run against a local database, just to make sure that everything works as expected.

• Create a local database named Portfolio_test.
• From Visual Studio, execute a schema compare to update Portfolio_test.
• Run those tests! If you have Psake installed, you can run the tests from the command line with psake NUnit.

If you have any questions, please ask.