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archuleta37 - 31 Oct 2005 20:50 GMT

I am planning a fresh install of my development system. I have experimented a
bit with the setup on Virtual PC and have noticed a few things that I want to
understand before installing on my development box.

1) VS 2005 installs SQL Server express edition
2) SQL Server 2005 installs the VS 2005 IDE

I don't want SQL express, I want the developer edition. I also want VS 2003
on my system. So I think I will approach my steps as follows:

1) install SQL 2005 developer edition
2) install VS 2003 (connecting to SQL 2005)
3) install VS 2005 (choosing not to install SQL express)

Here are my questions:
1) Does this order seem appropriate and are there any problems that anyone
can forsee?
2) what is the difference between the VS 2005 IDE installed with SQL 2005
developer edition and the normal VS 2005 Professional edition IDE that I will
install? I presume that features will just be added when Install VS 2005
Professional - Is that right?

Any feedback is much appreciated :-)

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Kay-Christian Wessel - 02 Nov 2005 16:51 GMT

Some experiences for your first question :

I've installed the SQL 2005 Developer Edt. and when I try to install the VS
2005 Pro it tells me that I must remove some Beta components. I don't have
any Beta components so I assume it detects the SQL 2005 Developer Edt. as a
Beta component.

So now I need to remove the SQL 2005 Developer Edt., and then install the VS
2005 Pro. Hopefully it will work.

Is the SQL 2005 Developer Edt. not compatible with VS 2005 PRO ?

All installs are RTM.

Kay

> I am planning a fresh install of my development system. I have experimented a
> bit with the setup on Virtual PC and have noticed a few things that I want to
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Kay-Christian Hansen - 02 Nov 2005 18:25 GMT

I found the problem to be Microsoft Document Explorer 2005. I'm not sure if
it was installed by the SQL 2005 Developer Edt.

When trying to remove the SQL 2005 Developer Edt. I first removed the
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 which caused the rest of the uninstallation to
fail. Very smart !

Kay

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