Hi Everyone,

I installed VB 2008 Express & SQL 2008 Express in my machine.

Under the programs list, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 options have been added.

I have noticed following differences between VB 2008 Express & Visual Studio 2008:

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express

- Target Framework dropdown list is not available
- has Database Explorer in the View menu

- has following Datasources in the Change Datasource Dialog:
Microsoft Access Database File
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5
Microsoft SQL Server Database File

- has following Visual Studio Installed templates when New project is selected:
Windows Forms Application
Class Library
WPF Application
WPF Browser Application
Console Application

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

- Target Framework dropdown list is available (2.0, 3.0, 3.5)
- has Database Explorer in the View menu

- has following Datasources in the Change Datasource Dialog:
Microsoft Access Database File
Microsoft ODBC Data Source
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5
Microsoft SQL Server Database File
Oracle Database

- has following Project Types and Visual Studio Installed templates when New project is selected:
Business Intelligence Projects
- Analysis Services Project
- Import Analysis Services 2008 Database
- Integration Services Connections Project
- Integration Services Project
- Report Server Project Wizard
- Report Model Project
- Report Server Project

Other Project Types
- Visual Studio Solutions
- Blank Solution

My questions are:

1. Why VB 2K8 Express does not show all the datasources which I can see in VS 2008?
2. Why VS 2K8 does not show Windows Forms Application, Class Library ..... under VS installed Templates?
3. Is there a way to merge these options (Except Target Framework, Database Explorer and Server Explorer)
so that both show same number of data sources and installed templates?

Thanks

Regards,
Akram