I've spent the weekend building a new notebook.

We are trying to work with SQL 2005 Express. For some reason, the server won't be found in the StrataFrame installation process.

I found a thread where Ben sugests to insert the server name manually. I did that, but no luck.

Honestly, I don't think it's a Straframe problem, as I then went into the Visual Studio's Server Explorer and tried to add a Database Conection, and it wasn't found there either.

Any clues that could help ?

Thanks.

1. Open up SQL Server Management Studio or Enterprise Manager
2. If StrataFrame, StrataFrameInternal, or StrataFrameSample exists within your server, delete them
3. Make sure the MDF files do not exist.  To do this, navigate to the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data" folder and remove any file that begins with "StrataFrame"
4. At this point there should be no StrataFrame database or reference to a database
5. Close all Visual Studio instances
6. Install StrataFrame and let it re-create your data structures

This should get you going.  Let me know if you run into anything I did not think of