Very Important Inquiry. Please Help

[SANR]

Hello,
I am new to this forum & VB .Net. For several years I worked as an IBM mainframe programmer. Now I am in the process of learning VB .Net.
On my computer I have installed 'VB .Net Professional 2003' , as per your suggestion I downloaded '101 VB .Net examples' & MSDE. When I tried to execute the example 'Data Access - Data Entry Form' I got following messages.
1. First I got a message box saying "Connecting to Server"
2. Then I got following message...
"To run the sample you must have SQL server or MSDE with Northwind database installed. For instructions on installing MSDE, view the readme file"
Now I know for sure that I have downloaded & already installed MSDE. Also as per the readme folder I am not able to find following path.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\FrameworkSDK\Samples\Setup
I will appreaciate if any you can help me with this problem.
Thanks in advance. : [/COLOR]

[mendhak]

And as the error says, did you check for the existence of Northwind?

[jmcilhinney]

There is a version of MSDE intended specifically for VS developers. My guess is that this version includes the Northwind database while the standard version probably does not. If it is the case that your MSDE version does not include the Northwind database and you cannot get it separately, you can get the developers' version of MSDE from here.