I've also had problems installing SSE 2008 on a 64 bit Win 7 system. In my case (repeated several
times) I get an unhandled exception error during installation, and the install summary states
that Management Basics failed. I took the option of continuing the install and initial work with
the system seemed OK.
I'm trying to create a database from a VB program - VB Express 2010/.Net Framework 4. This all
seemed to work, but, because the install returned errors I decided to go to SSE 2012 RC0. This
installed without errors and I've now installed SQL Management Studio.
Problem is now the create db doesn't work!
The database connect and create db details are:
Connection string:
Dim myConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection("Server=TOSHIBA\SQLEXPRESS;" & _
& ...
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