Hello all I’m wondering if somebody could please help me with setting up an installation of Umbraco 7 (with the starter kit) so that I can use it with an instance of visual studio (2010) and a GIT repository.

I have a brief knowledge of GIT but I want to start learning and understanding the software along with MVC (which I’m just starting out with), so I though a good way would be to create a GIT repo (containing and Umbraco 7 installation) and could practice pulling, pushing, branching and merging changes and features in.

I’ve downloaded v7.19 from http://our.umbraco.org/download and set it all up locally so that I have a working DB along with a website correctly configured in IIS meaning my Umbraco installation is all up and running fine locally. However, I’m after some advice on how to open it all up in visual studio (2010) so that I can edit and debug the MVC files to assist my learning with the technology.

In addition to this, I want to be able to upload all the relevant files including the .sln file into Git so that I can easily clone a copy of the application files into a directory on another computer and run the .sln file and get it to build successfully (obviously creating the db & users, configuring IIS and ensuring the connection string is correct on the new computer).

I followed the following tutorial (http://slickjuanito.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/setting-up-umbraco-development-environment-in-visual-studio-2010/) which helped me to get Umbraco working in visual studio ok and I then followed the following tutorial https://help.github.com/articles/adding-an-existing-project-to-github-using-the-command-line/ to help me create a new repo in GIT and commit and then push all my Umbraco files into git hub. However, when I clone the repository and open the .sln file I can’t get it to run.

I was wondering if any one has any suggestions on this or can point me in the direction of a good tutorial to help me along.

Thanks

Paul