[quoted text, click to view] "Mario Antunes" <MarioAntunes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I guess the main issue is that there isn't a server icon listed in the
>server
> explorer window. Could this be a limitation of the visual basic .net
> standard ed?
>
Now that we know the edition you're using, I don't believe so. Look at this
page listing Standard Edition features:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbgrfvisualbasicstandardeditionfeatures.asp
Server Explorer is listed prominently, so I don't think that's the problem.
As I do know that there are no issues with installing MSDE after installing
VS/VB, I'd suggest uninstalling, then reinstalling MSDE to see if that
causes your VB to "see" the MSDE instance.
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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
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