Setup ODBC problem using SQL Express

Hi,

I have install Microsoft Visual C# Express Editon 2005 from MSDN site. I have follow this step

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Uninstall beta versions

Before installing, youmustuninstall any previous versions of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and the .NET Framework 2.0.

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Download and install

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before that i also insatl IIS from windows service pack 2

My problem starting when I'm trying to enable connection to the database with setup the ODBC my step
1.Start>>Control Panel>>Administrative Tools>>Data Sources(ODBC)
2.System DSN>>Add
3.Select>>SQL Server>>Finish
4.Put Name:>>>Choose Server:>>>Next
5.Select>>>With SQL Server authenticationusing a ID and password enter by user>>>Connect to SQL Server>>>put Login ID:sa>>>Next
6. Test Data Source
7.Error

Connection failed:
SQL State:'01000'
SQL Server Error: 2
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]ConnectionOpen (Connect( )).
Connection faild:
SQL State:'08001'
SQL Server Error: 7
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.

Please help me step by step. I'm using C# to build application that can pullout data from card using chip like smartcard or chip based card. The data then save to database in SQL. Using Macromedia I'm build a website that can publish the data to web site. My mission to set up my CPU as Server using SQL Server. I'm build all my project in the same CPU with the server.

tq.

[3179 byte] By [syiown8] at [2008-2-20]
# 1
To connect to sql express locally, since sql express is named instance, you neeed to specify "(local)\sqlexpress" or ".\sqlexpress" in your data source connection string.
NanTu at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Express...
# 2

You need to enable SQL Express to accept remote connection through TCP/IP before you can connect through ODBC. Check out the KB article that disucsses this:

914277 How to configure SQL Server 2005 to allow remote connections
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;914277

Regards,

Mike Wachal
SQL Express team

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MikeWachal-MSFT at 2007-9-8 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Express...

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