Need help! "Head first C#"

[[F]ear]

Hey! Some of you might have red the book "Head first C#."
I was looking for some help on the Service-based Datebase (page 52) as I try to open it, it come up with the following error: Connections to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to fuction properly. Please verity the intallation of the component or download from the URL: bla bla bla.
The thing is... I've been downloading it, and upgraded to version 2008. And it still doesn't work.
Any help will be good;P

[dejavu11]

Not quite sure (I may be reading your post wrong) but have you tried installing the 2005 edition? 2005 and 2008 should run side by side.

[[F]ear]

Yea I did try to download 2005. But it was not possible to run it since 2008 was alrdy there.

[dejavu11]

Hrm, that's no fun. There's always the (not so attractive) option of uninstalling 2008 and going with 2005. I'm not a big MSSQL guy but this may help:

From: SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 on the same box - TechNet Forums

Hi Theresa,



Yes you can have both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 installed on the same machine, side by side. For the features that are multi-instance (SQL Database Engine, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services) they will need to be installed with a seperate instance name (ie. if you installed SQL Server 2005 as the default instance, SQL Server 2008 will need to be installed with a named instance). Other than that they should work fine.



Regards,



Jeff.

[Matador]

Did you find a version of it with a readable font?

If yes, please PM me.

[maclone]

738 pages, but really nice done Oo ...
Yeah, I found a good version, PM me if you want it.

Edit: After some reading.... this book is awesome!!!!