Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch – Installation
09-Sep-1111 Leave a comment
There is a lot of web talk on problems with existing SQL installations before installing LightSwitch
- LightSwitch 2011 requires SQL Server Express to be installed. It is looking for SQLEXPRES instance.
- If you already have SQL Developer edition you may have a problem. I tried to trick it by adding an instance to SQL Developer named SQLEXPRESS. This got past the LightSwitch install.
- However still could not use the program because it also requires User Instances, which are not possible in Developer. So Removed my SQLEXPRESS instance. To do this > Programs and Features > Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) then Remove. Don’t panic it asks if you want to uninstall an instance, so you can leave previous instances on there.
- Then installed SQLExpress side-by-side with my developer edition. All OK
- LightSwitch 2011 good to go!
Stephen Shakespeare 