E.R.

>Can you connect to a .mdf file in the app_data folder to generate business objects? The connection string in the web.config doesn't work in the business object generator. I didn't see anything in the help that addressed this.

A quick Google search tells me this problem is rampant with many different solutions! Here are a few links you may find helpful:

http://blogs.advantaje.com/blog/kevin/Net/2005/11/15/SQLExpress-Problems.html?page=comments

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=110252&SiteID=17

http://sjbdeveloper.blogspot.com/2006/06/web-application-projects-and-sql.html

Best Regards,