When I use SQLServer 2008 Express for my development tests, I always forget which things I have to do in order to make my SQL Server 2008 Express instance available to other machines over the networks.
So to not forget that again this are the things that you have to check to be able to acces sql server express from other machines:
1. Go to the Start Menu\All Programs\Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2\ and run SQL Server Configuration Manager
2. In the SQL Server Configuration Manager Window, expand the tree on the left and expand the SQL Server Network configuration element on the tree. Make sure that at least TCP/IP protocol is enabled.
3. Now Click on the SQL Server Services element on the tree and make sure that the SQL Server Browser service is running. It is needed in order to make other computer able to see your server.
If during a VB6 migration you decide o take a step forward and move your databases to MS SQL
don't worry. The SQL Server team has a tool just for that.
I just don't know why it is so hard to find it in google. But the appropiate link is:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssma/p/access.aspx
Also a recent article in Teched goes into all the gory details: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh334645.aspx
Good Luck and don't hesitate to contact us for any doubts.
I was playing around with dumpbin trying to figure out some problems with a 32-bit dll and in order to make
dumpbin run from the command line I just copied the mspdb100.dll file to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin>
Something simple right! No harm can be gotten from something like that? WRONG!!!
After that some of my C++ project stop compiling with the annoying message: Program database manager mismatch!!.
Luckily I remembered copying that file, so I just gave it a try, and guest what? Everything works fine now.
Well I’m posting it just a reminder that for VS C++ you must put attention on all the details 