i cannot but wonder that this has something to do maybe with a setting in VS2005. I am experiencing this same problem on a new laptop with a new install of vs2005, while on my own pc, with a slightly older version, i am having no problems at all. Looking at the versions, i notice that the VB 2005 version on my laptop is 77642-113.3000004-41696, while on my PC its 77642-113-3000004-41040.

Might it be a good idea for the coreteam to start working with the latest version of VS2005, so the next version of DNN4 will not have this problem?

cheers,

Erik

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I was getting the same message too. 

My environment is windowsXP Pro as my website (my testbed), with another machine running win2k3 running my database SQL2005 express.

Thanks to another post, I figured out that my SQL server entry was incorrect.  Here is what I did:

Edit the "machine.config" in the root directory of where I extracted the dnn site.

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WRONG - here i had set <add name="dotnetnuke" thinking that it should be the name of the database I had setup.

<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005-->

<add name="dotnetnuke" connectionString="Server=MyDBServer;Database=DotNetNuke;uid=myuser;pwd=mypass;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

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CORRECTED - now it says "SiteSQLServer"

<!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005-->

<add name="SiteSQLServer" connectionString="Server=MyDBServer;Database=DotNetNuke;uid=myuser;pwd=mypass;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

where MyDBServer is the hostname of my server with the database

DotNetNuke is the name of the database

myuser is the username for the database login

mypass is the password for the myuser username

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One last thing was when I created my database and setup the user, I forgot to uncheck user must change password at next logon.  Duhh.  I simply unchecked the "enforce password policy" since this is my own network.

Hope this helps someone else.  I am new at posting to forums, but since someone else's post helped me, I figure I should post my results.