Enable-Migrations Error

Ran into an error earlier regarding enable-migrations. In the past is has worked perfectly, but suddenly it seemed to barf all over my screen in red paint like so - Argh, My Eyes!! PM> Enable-Migrations Exception calling "BuildProject" with "3" argument(s): "The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))" At D:\development\Dev-Training\TaxMate\packages\EntityFramework.6.0.1\tools\EntityFramework.psm1:866...

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Choosing the right desktop development technology

I've recently had a requirement to build out a desktop offline application that mostly does data collection. Here are the requirements technical and otherwise Must work offline Will be mostly installed on Windows laptops (assuming Windows 7+) Nice to have the ability to run it on Mac as well Simply data entry application Should be easy to maintain by a group of unknown future developers.  This is not for a company, but a volunteer based organization As I started evaluating different technologies, I went from Native...

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Automating PhoneGap Build build.

No - that's not a typo. I'm referring to the build process when using Adobe's phonegap build service. I won't go on much about phonegap build, except to say that it's brilliant and probably saved me from buying an expensive mac for 2 weeks of development work. Can't completely eliminate the need for a mac, but at least day-to-day phone gap based web development does not require one. Phonegap build offers you the ability to zip up your web application and upload it for a build. 2 easy steps right ? Wrong! Doing this around...

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