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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:13:03+00:00

I’m looking at adding Visual Studio Database Edition (aka. VSDE) to my version of

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I’m looking at adding Visual Studio Database Edition (aka. VSDE) to my version of VS2008.

Q1. What’s the order of install of these products? is this ok?

Update: Fixed the ordering of the install, based on feedback.

  • VS2008 (c# [no sub options], web dev, ts tools. nothing else).
  • Team Foundation Client (found on our msdn dvd)
  • VSDE
  • VSDE GDR (I think we downloaded this from download.microsoft.com)
  • VS2008 SP1
  • VS2008 SP1
  • VSDE GDR

Q2. Is it ‘acceptable’ to not have sql server installed on the client machines but use a dev box? what about private instances of their dev data? Basically, we don’t install sql on our vista dev boxes. I personally don’t like having extra services which i might not use all the time. We have 3 DB’s usually – Dev, Test, Production. Should we make multiple Sql instances on our dev box (for example) which could be SqlMachine\User1, SqlMachine\User2, etc.. and the root SqlMachine is ‘Dev’. This way, we can each use VSDE to play with our own db instance and this then goes up to the Dev instance?

(i hope that made sense).

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  1. Q1 – the GDR has a pre-requisite of VS2008 SP1, so switch those last two around.

    Q2 – I believe that each dev should be working with their own sandboxed database instance, yes. If you don’t want to install instances of SQL Server on your workstations, then using multiple instances of SQL on a development server sounds like a reasonable solution.

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