ASP.NET (MVC) and the Tale of the Continuous Application Restarts

I made a classic rookie mistake with ASP.NET (MVC) the other day. In my spare time, I’m working on this small sample application for myself in order to learn more about ASP.NET MVC. After working on this small web application for a while, I came to the point where I needed to set up a database for persisting some data. I just wanted to get this out of the way as quickly as possible, so I used