Andrea, that's just an answer I'm looking for ... I'm preparing a quote and
"Andrea Montanari" <andrea.sqlDMO@virgilio.it> wrote in message
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> hi John,
> John wrote:
>>
>> Firstly, I have SQL Server 2005 and Analysis Server 2005 running on my
>> machine as well as Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. Can I install
>> Express and develop on the same machine?
>
> yes but you do not need to, as you can develop your app using, say, SQL
> Server Dev edition and distribute SQLExpress to your end users.. you are
> not required to develop against a SQLExpress edition (unless you want to
> use "User Instance" feature, available for SQLExpress only
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/sqlexpuserinst.asp)
>
>> Secondly, and I think this might be in the wrong N.G. but surely you
>> people have come across this too - I have VS 2005 standard installed
>> and thus no Crystal reports (it only comes with Enterprise edition).
>> What do you use to produce reports over an Express database?
>
> SQLExpress will include in the (near?) future the Reporting Server engine,
> so you can take advantage of the new VS2005 ReportViewer controls
> (
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251671(en-US,VS.80).aspx)
> or you can use third party tools, Cristal, ActiveReport
> (
http://www.datadynamics.com/Products/ProductOverview.aspx?Product=ARNET2)
> , custom code
> (
http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/dynamic_report_with_query.asp) or
> whatever..
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
>
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> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
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