I have not been able to run this version from source code using the built-in local webserver in VS2005.  I've posted on the forum and it seems as though there are at least 6 other people with similar experiences. hlp plz!  this is officially an sos!

It does work when i use iis but when i run it from the local webserver the images are missing from installwizard.aspx and it hangs when trying to create the db objects.

Mitchell-

Thanks for the reply.  Do you know of anyone successfully running it from the local webserver?  Im prettty certain about my connection string:
<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=UEPortal;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

Interestingly though http://localhost:1138/Website/Install/Logo.gif yields:
the stored procedure 'dbo.dnn_GetPortalAliasByPortalID' doesn't exist.

I have no clue what is going on here.  Im sure that sproc doesnt exist and cant understand where the call is originating from.

I also found and figured out that i needed to set an unpublished appsetting called UsePortalNumber to true and did that.

Once again, Thanks!

There is a problem with InstallWizard.aspx.  I dont know the cause of the issue but I have found a workaround. 

There is a routine called CheckVersion in Global.asax.vb that causes dotnetnuke to redirect to either install.aspx or installwizard.aspx based on the value of an appSetting in web.config.  The following appsetting is shipped with dotnetnuke:
<add key="UseInstallWizard" value="true" />
which causes dotnetnuke to redirect to the problematic installwizard.aspx.

Change the setting to:
<add key="UseInstallWizard" value="false" /> 
and dotnetnuke will redirect to install.aspx which will correctly install the database objects.