Data Explorer Capabilities Redux
I've viewed several posts on this issue.. but the answers are still not quite clear to me.
I am using VB Express and have an existing .mdf running on a current instance of SQL Express. I'm fine with working with a local copy of the database which is created when I add the database to my project. However, even though when I exit and reenter the Database Explorer adds the connection to the added database, the connection is broken with error 26.
Can you only work with databases you create in VB Express? Is that the defiinition of a VBExpress database? A local database?
Finally, the real question is: Can I connect to any exisiting .mdf database using Database Explorer and the design time tools?
Thanks. There probably ought to be a blog or a white paper on this.
