Samples and Servers

[JpSkyPilot]

Hi:

I have programmed with VB 6.0 for years and am now trying to learn VB 2010 (I have the "Express" Version). Downloaded the "samples" which are apparently for 2008 or earlier. but every one of them seems to require a server and NorthWind.mdb to be on that server so it can attach... but I don't have a server on my machine....

1) Is there a way to run these without a server? (Without having to reprogram the moon!)

I tried to download the 2012 server express from Microsoft and my Explorer 8 keeps beeping and saying that a page was recovered but had to quit to keep from getting into an "endless loop".... so, I'm even having a hard time downloading a possible server to use!... I need a keeper ...

Any suggestions? I learned VB 6.0 by using samples and doing the programming...and I need the samples to get beyond the basics and see how to load some of the controls, etc.

thanks for any assistance you may be able to give me..

Jp

[jmcilhinney]

The server it is talking about is SQL Server. You may well already have SQL Server Express installed along with VB Express. If you're using VB Express 2010 then you should probably installed SQL Server Express 2008 R2. Try downloading the one with tools so that you get Management Studio Express as well. You can use SSMS to attach a database if you download one.

Here's a download link for SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Tools:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Link...85&clcid=0x409

Here's a download link for just Management Studio for if you already have the database engine installed:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Link...89&clcid=0x409

[JpSkyPilot]

jmcilhinney

It worked!!! I did get the server down...now (I hate to display my ignorance further)....but is there a "white paper" or anything that shows me how to use it... I need to be able to have my Access Databases on it...and know how to connect to it using VisualBasic 2010 express.

I am sorry for my ignorance...but I'd never know if I did not ask

Thanks again

Jpskypilot

[dunfiddlin]

I need to be able to have my Access Databases on it

Er ... no, you don't. Your post was about the Northwind samples which are SQL server files which was why you were advised to download Server Express. Access databases are handled in an entirely different way.

[JpSkyPilot]

dunfiddlin

I don't know about servers and how they work...etc. I asked a question becuase I did not understand. I know that when I s tarted the sample in VB2010 it said that I needed NWND on the server to run it. That to me means, NWND had to be somehow on the server...or in some way connected to the server.

I am sorry to have bothered you and that I am not as FRIGGIN smart as you are!!!!! I don't care for the snide remarkes and if that is all you have, please do not respond to any of my posts again.!!!

[dunfiddlin]