• The Express products work fine next to the full Visual Studio and SQL Server
• You do not HAVE to have SQL server Express installed, I just wanted to know if it was
• It doesn't matter if you use the default settings or not

The main question you need to answer to trouble shoot this is if a normal asp.net 2.0 application works.

OK I'm back.

I am able to create web apps with both VS 2005 & VWD express. I made pages containing dropdowns, textboxes, buttons, and I also connected to a MS Access db as a test. When run and debugged everything appears to be working fine. As stated previously, I have framework 2.0 installed. I ran the ASP_REGIIS code. I have reinstalled both the VWD Express & SQL Express programs but still get the "Site Under Construction" after opening the web site and "Start Debugging"

see:

Answers to Common Module Development Errors

Error:

Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed.

Answer:

Caused when using SQL Server express. In the web.config, change:

 <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

to:

 <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=False" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />