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Problem with SQL Express aliases under Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010

Recently upgraded to Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit and Visual Studio 2010. In previous versions, we set up an alias to SQL Express 2008 to use localhost instead of .\SQLEXPRESS, so that our config files don't need to change when checking into TFS before being deployed to staging or wherever. After the upgrade, I can connect to SQL Express 2008 using SSMS and the localhost alias, but Visual Studio 2010 and IIS don't seem to be aware of it. Any ideas?

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