VS2008 Express and Cuyahoga

Yes. That is correct, I am indeed a big fat liar. No, this is not a post about London, I will get to that. Later. What this is is a quick-how-to guide regarding my new favourite open source .net cms framework, Cuyahoga. Expect to see a lot more development articles (well more than ussual anyway) regarding this topic. So for anyone who cares, here is a quick walkthrough guide on getting Cuyahoga 1.5.2 set up on Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) Express Edition: 1. Download and install the latest version of VS2008 Express with Service Pack 1 2. Download and install the Windows SDK v6.1 (as opposed to v6.0a which comes with expresss) being carefull to install the developer tools. 3. Fire up Regedit and change the following two keys' values: * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\CurrentInstallFolder * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0a\WinSDKVWDTools\InstallationFolder to c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.1\ as oppossed to c:\program files\microsoft sdks\windows\v6.0A\ (or something similar, depending on your installation paths) 4. Next fire up Visual Web Developer Express 2008 and open the cuyahoga project, you will be presented with the conversion wizard, step through the conversion wizard being sure to leave the project as a.net 2.0 project do not convert it to a .net 3.5 project. Right and thats that. Additionally you can use SQL Express, if you have installed it, like so: 1. Modify the properties.config file set Server=.\SqlExpress in the connection string 2. From a command prompt type osql -S .\SqlExpress -E 3. Then create database Cuyahogo followed by [Enter] then go followed by [Enter] again And that's all.