http://blogs.msdn.com/timng/archive/2007/06/02/getting-sql-express-to-work-nicely-with-visual-studio-2005.aspxI just spent the last 4 hours getting my machine ready for a user group demo; I was trying to get SQL Express setup so that I could do a LINQ to SQL demo; what a painful 4 hours! I will try to document things that I discovered along the way here so thaten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)