I love using MSDE as my backend engine for my windows application as a developer i have 3 windows forms applications that use MSDE as their local database engine. Honestly I had a very hard time installing MSDE with them, so I decided to documents my findings for others. First thing you want to do is make sure you have the latest version of MSDE installed on your development machine, you can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/do...