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BOOK: Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB BOOK ISBN: 978-0-470-18759-3
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October 25th, 2009, 06:02 PM
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Curly fries anyone? :) You were right Imar and to tell you the truth I thought "He' going to find a little thing like a capitalization", eh close enough. Thanks man I really appreciate it. Man it can get frustrating in the beginning...
Thanks again and cheers!
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October 25th, 2009, 06:39 PM
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Haha, that's why it's useful sometimes to have a second pair of eyes looking over your shoulder... ;-)
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November 4th, 2009, 04:17 PM
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Hi Imar, been a while but I'm back ;)
I installed SQL Server 2008 Dev. Ed. and now when I try to open the WROX DB in Solution Explorer I get Connection to SQL Server files(*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly. Please verify the instalaltion of the component or download from url....
I have SQL Server 2005 in my program list "START" All Programs.... and it further breaksdown into Configuration Tools and three more options "Configuration manager, Error and Usage Reporting, and finally Surface Area Configuration. Is there something else I need, maybe something the SQL 2008 replaced?
Interestingly the DB works from whithin the website itself ie I can access the various reviews and genres and all aspx work fine.
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November 4th, 2009, 04:37 PM
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What's the connection string you are using? And what are the names of the 2005 and 2008 installations? is the 2005 version called .\SqlExpress?
You could try reinstalling Service Pack 1 for VWD and see if that makes a differnece. Somehow, something broke but I don't know what. I run a mix of SQL Servers on my machine successfully so at least it should work in theory.... ;-)
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November 4th, 2009, 05:48 PM
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That's the thing, I don't have a 2005 and 2008 installation I only installed Visual Studio 2008 initially and went through your book up to Ch 15 everything working fine. Then I installed Sql Server 2008 Dev. Ed. I never had a 2005 install. I'm not using a connection string in this particular case, I am just trying to open the DB in Solution Explorer and getting the error. The DB works fine in the Planet WROX site I put together chapter by chapter.
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November 5th, 2009, 04:16 AM
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I don't have a 2005 and 2008 installation
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I only installed Visual Studio 2008 initially and went through your book up to Ch 15 everything working fine.
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If you didn't have a database installed before you installed the Dev edition, how did you follow along witth the database chapters?
If you install VS 2008 or VWD 2005 SQL Server Express 2005 Express gets installed as well, unless you already have it or opted out during installation.
Anyway, try installing SQL Server Express ( www.microsoft.com/Express) and see if that helps. It's always a good idea to have an instace of Express as many ASP.NET samples assume it's there....
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November 6th, 2009, 02:39 PM
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Ok so Visual Studio installs SQL Server Express 2005 with it and that is how I was able to follow the dB chapters. What happened was that I downloaded some other code from the net and am unable to run it because of some issues with the 2005 SQL version and in trying to resolve those I tried a solution involving changing the SQL instance in Visual Studio itself and when I did your dB ceased to work. So I went back and undid the instance change in Visual Studio and your stuff works now. I wil try and install SQL express 2008 even though I have SQL 2008 Developers edition installed already and see what happens.
Thanks Imar
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November 7th, 2009, 04:21 AM
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Ok so Visual Studio installs SQL Server Express 2005 with it and that is how I was able to follow the dB chapters.
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Yes; take another look at page 2, 3 and 4 where this is explained.
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I wil try and install SQL express 2008 even though I have SQL 2008 Developers edition installed
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You don't have to do that. Things will work fine if you have 2005 Express and 2008 Dev. You can choose the version you need for the project you're working on. You can switch between database servers in the Tools | Options dialog as you already found out.
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