I cannot create a brand new MDF (sql server database) with Visual Basic 2005

Hi everybody:

I go to Server Explorer, right click on Data Connection, input the server name (that is, my own computer), give a new name to the database to create, and then inevitably get the error window saying:

An error occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connectiong to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL server does not allow remote connections. (Provider: Named Pipes Provider, error 40, could not open a conection to SQL Server)

So, how to open a connection to SQL server 2005? I looked in the msdn but found absolutely nothing.

Please help

Paolo

There is a great blog post that discusses common causes of connection errors and the errors that you get when that problem exists. This particular error suggests that SQL Express is not running. Launch SQL Server Configuration Manager and verify that the server is running.

Mike