I’ve been playing around with Visual Studio 2005 Express building and proto-typing some client applications. After I had the first application almost ready to go to production (ie: change the database string to use my in house SQL server instead of the local database I was building the project with), I noticed one big problem: VS 2005 Express can only build projects with a local database with no option to link it to a remote or external database.

Needless to say I will have to import the project into a Standard or Professional (read paid) version to finish the project.

The product is a huge update over Visual Studio 2003 edition and the new features are really neat but I think the goofed with the Express edition if they will not allow this simple feat.

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