Grettings everyone!
I'm currently running an eval copy of VS2010 and have created a website with login and some security on a virtual machine. I have SQL Server 2008R2 running on that machine as well with the server instance called SQLEXPRESS. When I was ready to publish the site to our production server to see how it looked/worked, the site came up but I was unable to log in to the site and got all kinds of errors from the site. I quickly figured out that it was because of the SQL instance on my VM not being present on the production server/not having remote access. Long story short, I want my VM and the production server be the same so I can easily publish things without hassle. Should I have the VM use the SQL server instance of the production server, or should I have one respective instance for each? I would really welcome some advice, especially since it looks like I'll be doing quite a bit of work now with VS2010.
Thanks in advance,
Chris