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I have VS 2008 Trial edition, SDK, and SQL Server 2008 currently. But I need to uninstall VS 2008 Trial and replace it with VS 2008 Professional. If I uninstall VS 2008 while keeping SQL Server 2008, then if I install VS 2008 Pro will SQL Server databases still be accessible from the new VS 2008 Pro? And do I install the SDK after VS 2008?

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Microsoft offers very specific instructions for this issue.

This is what worked for us:

  1. Uninstall VS 2008 Trial
  2. Uninstall SQL Server 2008
  3. Install VS 2008 Professional
  4. Install VS 2008 SP1
  5. Install SQL Server 2008
  6. Install SQL Server 2008 SP1
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