dear sir,

how to open database file of .mdf extension for the projects of this book.

ravi gupta

It depends.

If you have a full version of SQL Server 2005, you can attach the databases to SQL Server and use its tools to manage the database.

Otherwise, open the site in Visual Web Developer and then look at the Data Source or Server Explorer panel. From there you can create a new connection (often it's already there, based on the connection string info in the web.config file) and then look in the database.

Cheers,

Imar
---------------------------------------
Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
Want to be my colleague? Then check out this post.