I have visual studio web developer express. I develop a website on my local PC that works with a SQL server database hosted on a server at a web-hosting company. I would like to script out the database, (which I know how to do) and then put a local version of SQL server (perhaps 'localdb', perhaps another) and run the script so that I recreate the database on my local PC. Then I want to link to it. I've tried this a couple of times over the years, and I end up download 'localdb', which after running the install program, is unfindable on my PC. So I can't run the script within it. And even if I could, I would not know the connection string.
Thanks.