I am a newbie to ASP & Web development. I have SQL 2005 Standard Edition as well as SQL Express 2005 installed on my machine. I am using web development training material from learnVisualStudio.net using Visual Web Developer 2005. Sample code are provided and on using these sample code I experience problems opening the databases as well as I am with a test web application - on adding a new SQL Database Item to the App_Data folder, I get the following error:
"Connections to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly....."
I have searched for an explanation but could not find any satisfactory answer. I hav came accros this link (http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t300484-aspnetdbmdf-when-no-sqlexpress-only-sql-server-2005.html), but that does not explain how to overcome this problem.
Any help will be appreciated.
Pierre