MSDE is the desktop version of SQL Server. You can get more info on the Wiki
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MSDE~SoftwareEng

>Can you explain further what you mean by MSDE? Development environment? The software is sold all over the world to potentially anyone with any kind of pc. We only specify that they have to have Windows of some flavor and 32 MB RAM, 10MB disk space free. I'd like to minimize the amount of code I write so it can ideally be transported to any of the platforms.
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