Hi,

I'm used to working with visual studio express edition that has an sql management express tool for managing sql databases.

now I need to work on a visual studio 2003 project that has an sql 2000 database.

1. must I install sql server 2000 for working with sql databases ?

2. how do I connect to the db ? where do I need to define it (besides in the web.config connection string)

3. can I run queries/ watch the tables content from within the vs 2003 ?