Thanks Viv

I did that.

Bit I do find it a bit irritating that the other way doesn't work and its not obvious why not.



>Hi,
>Don't know what the problem might be but why not just create the relevant datrabase and tables directly in SQL2008. You should be able to pick on the example at the 'Creating the Model' stage (ie Entity Framework should hook up OK)
>
>But it might be worth checking that you can connect to an existing database on that server first.......
>
>>HI
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>>I'm looking at the demo application
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>>Creating a Movie Database Application in 15 minutes with ASP.NET MVC
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>>I'm using VS2008 and when I get to adding a database I get an error Connections to SQL server files require SQL EXpress 2005.
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>>I've got SQL Server 2008.
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>>Any ideas why its looking for 2005 and also what can I do about it.
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>>Thanks
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>>Nick