This session teaches you how to deploy applications with Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The discussion covers how to detect the existence of the correct version of SQL Server 2005 as well as machine configuration. Using examples in both Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 and Visual C# 2005, we demonstrate how to use the new SMO (SQL Management Objects) libraries to carry out server configuration. We also show how to use custom actions callable by Microsoft Installer packages to create a database schema ...

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