I run a website using VWD Express 2008 and Expression Web 3. About 2 months ago I downloaded and was using Visual Studio 2010 Express/VWD2010 Express, instead of VWD 2008 although 2008 was not uninstalled. Everything worked until a week ago. Attempts to run the site on the local host gave:
"Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) "
No software changes had been made other than Windows Update. After some attempts at repair, I uninstalled all of the SQL Server components I could find with the control panel and also uninstalled VWDE 2010.
I re-installed Visual Studio 2010 Express. The error remains.
What am I missing? Does installation of Visual Studio 2010 Express also install a version of SQL Server? SQL Server has reappeared on my Control Panel list of installed programs but VWDE is still not finding it.