RE: can't add data source in Visual Studio with SQL Server ce 3.5

SSC Guru

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February 3, 2010 at 8:45 am

eric could it have to do with disk permissions?

for example, on my win7 laptop, i cannot write to c:\mydb.sdf, but i have no problem writing to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\mydb.sdf

but on my xp desktop, i can write to either place, mostly because my desktop is runnign with service credentials of a local admin, instead of whatever the default local service or network service account.

Lowell

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