Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:59 PM
Okay, I must be missing something. I have been reading Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook by JesseLibery and decided that I wanted to code out the example that he had for the new Forms Authentication stuff.
I tried to download Sql 2005 Express (just becuse I am lazy and don't want to put another huge tool on my box that might not get used anytime soon), and when I tried to install it, it said that I had some other files that would keep it from installing correctly. So, I go back to MSDN, and read a little bit and find this statement:
Step 2: Use Add/Remove Programs to remove Microsoft .NET Framework versions 1.2 or 2.0, if installed.
Note: You do not have to uninstall Microsoft .NET Framework Versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Okay, so I am using VS2005 so that automatically makes me think that from what this is saying is to uninstall the .NET framework 2.0. Yeah... I don't think so. I am sure that since the new framework is shipped with SQL now that it is just trying to be sure that it has the correct version installed, but it makes me wonder about the compatabilility between these tools..
Is ther some sort of INSTALLATION ORDER? If so, I would expect SQL Express to be installed after the development environment.
Either way, Check out Jesse's book. I like it a lot. He gets right to the meat of the new changes that are coming in the next version of VS2005.
Until the next buffer overflow.
Michael