I've just spent 18 man-hours installing a fresh Windows 7 on a new SSD and I'm about 80% done. I'm also upgrading to Visual Studio 2013. It took 2 hours to get IIS working with correct permissions and pools. It took 2 hours to install Sibelius 7. It took an hour to get the Epson scanner and printer working. All this was expected I guess.
I've only stumbled upon one "gotcha" so far ... When adding an EDMX and making a connection there is no data source provider listed for SQLite. I remember I searched for ages last year to find the right installer for VS2012, but I can't one for VS2013 and I think the reason is HERE<http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/news.wiki>. It looks like I have to wait until January XX 2014. So I'm stuck with several projects that won't build and I've got to find a workaround. It's a bit weird as I have a tiny project with a single EDMX in it and it doesn't compile due to *The ADO.NET <http://ADO.NET> provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SQLite' is either not registered in the machine or application config file, or could not be loaded. See the inner exception for details. ..TemplateModel.edmx -- *But the config and references all look correct, so where the hell is it looking?! The relationship between design time, providers and runtime is really unclear. All of this is a sobering warning of what happens when you become dependent upon external kits and tools. Greg K
