Thursday, July 21, 2005

Visual Studio and SQL Server Beta Madness

As most are aware that the new releases of Visual Studio Beta 2 (and CTP's) do not work with the original SQL Server Beta 2. In fact, things continue to get more confusing when you try to mix and match SQL Server CTP's with Visual Studio CTP's. I asked a colleague of mine, Peter O'Kelly to make some inquirys to his contacts at Microsoft to answer the question, "what works with what?" As it turns out, my official (or unofficial depending on how you look at it) is yet to be returned.


However, Peter was able to dig up an answer by Eric Nelson (who I believe works at Microsoft). Basically, it looks like I can safely install the June CTP of SQL Server with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. Consequently, this is exactly what I wanted to hear since I wanted to avoid SQL Server Express and the Developer editions which were the only April CTP options.

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