Very strange. I'm not seeing this anywhere on either my home or work machines. Kevin may need to chime in on this one. I'll keep looking in the meantime.

---J

>The application database is separate from the system database and the connection string was created using the server explorer.
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>I think it something more to do with Microsoft Article ID 832955, entitled:
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>BUG: The dtproperties system table is displayed as a user table in Visual Studio .NET Server Explorer.
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>I am running VS 2005 and VS 2003 on the same machine, each running with their respective version of the Mere Mortals .NET framework.
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>- Thomas