New Laptop blues VS - bad filename or volume name

difficult week

finally got it - cleared workspaces (including remote) and downloaded everything again

provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found.

the version of project was wrong so the references were not being created

web installer hung

i ran reset from command line

installing mvc 4

on vs 2012 kept on failing because of a lack of a patch on vs 2010 (huh?)
i installed mvc 3 first and all was good

Ease of Use - my foot

only date in javascript

var curdate = new Date();
        curdate.setHours(0,0,0,0);

when to use x86 on a VS build

I needed that for creating an exe that had to work on 64 bit bit still had references to 32 bit