Vineet, It sounds like you should be okay. There was also a patch to the SetupActions/Program.cs file that displays a message saying "Press any key to continue.".
When it says you are unable to open the files, are you trying to double click? If so that's not going to work. The MDF file is the actual database and when the SetupAction scripts runs it attaches the database to SQLServer, thus using it by another process. In order to view that newly created database, Open SQL Management Studio, connect to .\MSSQLServer, and expand Databases, you should see a StockTraderDB on that list. -Ben ________________________________________ From: Vineet ghatge [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 11:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DATABASE HELP Hello all, I have managed to create "SetupActions.exe" according to steps described by Scott Golightly on Apr 6(Subject:How to create and populate DB) After running the "SetupAction.exe" in the command prompt(as an administrator) i got the following as the output:- -Setting up database -Config.Appsettings: -dbserver is .\MSSQLExpress -installPath is C:\StockTraderDemo\ dbadmin is sa authType is SQL .......................................(cursor stops here) Does this mean it that it finished populating database? How do I knw that I finished populating the database???. While the command prompt runs at following path C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data,it creates two files:- 1)StockTraderDB.mdf----SQL Server Database Primary Data File 2)StockTraderDB_log.LDF---SQL Server Database Transaction Log File But I am unable to open the file instead throws an error saying "its being used by another process". I did not understand why?? . I am running the whole process on Windows XP OS With Regards, Vineet Ghatge H
