We’re getting the following error when trying to establish a connection to a database file in the project:
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.
Any ideas on how we can fix it?
Thanks in advance!
http://jeremywadsworth.com/Default.aspx?blogentryid=56 has one possible fix.
http://forums.asp.net/t/1377174.aspx also has further discussion on the topic.
Hope that helps.
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One more idea. I think I’ve encountered something like this when using Visual studio to create and access my database. You can detach your database file from visual studio and then directly attach it to your SQL server. I can’t remember if the problem manifested in the same way or not but this should get you around the user instance issue. If this doesn’t apply let me know and I’ll see if i can come up with anything else.