Thanks to Roger Jennings for pointing out in this post  that we had mistakenly said " VS 2005 and .Net 3.0 being "recommended for Microsoft employees" to connect to SSDS".  This is an error.  I talked to Mohan and it is being fixed.  SSDS will work with VS2005/.Net 3.0 as well as VS2008/.Net 3.5.  Our intent was to indicate that the sample code has been tested on VS 2005/.Net 3.0.  Thanks Roger and sorry about the error.  It is being fixed as we speak.