Hi Parang,
Just so you know: this is a user-to-user peer support newsgroup. It's very
unlikely anyone will email you with answers.
I'm not really clear from your post what exact error message you are
getting, or what you are doing to make the error happen. Also, when you say
you've "tried everything", what have you already tried? If we don't know
what you already tried, we might end up suggesting the same old stuff, over
and over :-)
Anyway ... first thing to check is that you have all the necessary updates
to run Visual Studio and SQL Server reliably, on Vista:
Visual Studio Express SP1
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...1-x86-intl.exe
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...e-4acc0aace5b6
SQL Server Express Edition Service Pack 2
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-au/express/bb410792.aspx
You absolutely must have the VS2005 Update for Vista, to run reliably.
You can get precise details about the error by going to Control Panel, and
looking at System and Maintenance, Problem Reports and Solutions. Click on
the "check for new solutions" link. This will send the error reports to
Microsoft, and check if there is an existing solution such as a hotfix. To
get technical details about the problem, click on View Problem History, and
double-click on any of the problem records. This will show some detailed
information about the crash. Some of these details are a bit inscrutable.
But if you're lucky there will be an exception code, such as 0xC0000005.
These are standard Windows error messages, defined in Winerror.h. This file
is included in the "inc" subdirectory of Visual Studio, if you have the C++
version.
If you try all that and have no solution, you can try asking in an SQL
Server Express newsgroup, such as:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/sho...d=385&siteid=1
Even if the underlying cause is a Vista problem not an SQL Server problem,
the folks over there are much more likely to know about the issue. Most
folks here in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general are just end-users, not
developers.
Good luck with it,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au