I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (8.0.50727.42) and going into the menu option Website > ASP.Net Configuration, access the security tab and all I get is an error message stating that there is a problem with the selected data store "Unable to Connect to the SQL Server Database"
I have SQL Server 2005 (Express Edition). I have created a database "NetDev" with the right connection, etc.
I can use the SQL server fine for my Windows applications, but somehow this ASp.Net Configuration tool is not making any sense.
I also used the aspnet_regsql command from framework 2.0 to create a DataBase to no avail.
Does anyone out there knows if there is a bug with this tool?
Responding to my own question.
I finally reinstalled everything from scratch, IIS first, and then Visual Studio and my problem went away. It obviously had some corruption as I havce deleted and recreated many apps I may have induced some problems. Also the NET Service had to be added to the APP-Data dir with write permissions (this may have been the real cause).
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