"Manage Data With VS 2005" by Roger Jennings
Visual Studio Magazine, December 2005

VS2005DataReadme File

1. Unzip the SmartClient1.zip project and its files to a SmartClient1 subfolder of a temporary folder of your choice.

2. Unzip the DataWebSite1.zip folder and its files to a DataWebSite1 subfolder of a temporary folder of your choice.

3. The ...\DataWebSite1\App_Data folder contains the Northwind.mdf SQL Server 2005 database file (Northwind.mdf) that you can temporarily or permanently attach to an instance of SQL Server 2005 or SQL Express.

4. The NorthwindConnectionString[1] connection string for the two applications expects a default local instance of SQL Server 2005 on localhost. If you've installed a nameed instance of SQL Sever 2005 Express, replace both connection strings' 'localhost' with '.\SQLEXPRESS'.

 