Enabling VS2005 support for SQL Server 2008 CTP-5

Hit another issue last night while playing with the latest CTP – VS2005 can’t cope with some of the changes in SS2008. The problem arose while defining an ASP.NET connection string that was pointing to a 2008 instance (while playing with query notifications and cache invalidation, but that’s unrelated) – it failed with a slightly misleading error message from VS that my SQL Server instance had to be SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 or above!

Turns out there’s a fix already (which works perfectly) – see http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1109aef-1aa2-408d-aa0f-9df094f993bf&displaylang=en. Thanks to Bob Beauchemin for helping me out.

Posted Under:

SQL Server 2008, Tools

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Other articles

AI Stories and Thoughts

iAI is obviously the hot new thing and prognostications for the future range from the unicorns-and-rainbows life of idleness for us all to the post-apocalyptic

Reflections on 15 Years

(This was the editorial for my 300th SQLskills Insider newsletter last week, that I’ve been producing since March 2011! See bottom of browser window to

Presenting a workshop at PASS Summit West in Seattle!

I’m excited to be presenting at the Pass Summit in November! My pre-con workshop is my absolute favorite to teach Performance Tuning with Waits and

Summer Sale: $699 Blackbelt Bundle!

Summer Sale time! Hundreds of dollars lower-than-ever prices on our signature 158-hour Blackbelt training bundle: Check It Out! SQLskills Blackbelt Bundle and 2022 Updates –

The SQL Server Transaction Log, Part 4: Log Records

(This post first appeared on SQLperformance.com four years ago as part of a blog series, before that website was mothballed later in 2022 and the

SQL101: Application data consistency checking

It’s quite common for a company that experiences a corruption-causing disaster, but has no valid backups to restore from and no ability to fail over

Imagine feeling confident enough to handle whatever your database throws at you.

With training and consulting from SQLskills, you’ll be able to solve big problems, elevate your team’s capacity, and take control of your data career.