I'm just getting to grips with MVC linq etc etc and came across what looks like a common stumbling block. For the more experienced of you reading this please refrain from shouting "Dumbass" at me. All the tutorials are either Code First examples or they create the database from scratch in the App_Data directory. All well and good for a tutorial that need to be easily portable to the readers computer, but not very helpful when setting up a full scale MVC application. My first problem was my lack of ......