Bought and installed VS2005 professional - There is no Management studio got installed in

Hi Friends,

I have a question. At my home computer i downloaded and
installed VWD. As usual it also installed Sqlexpress as part of the
installation(i checked the option). Later on i downloaded Management
studio separately so i am fine with my home computer as every thing is free.

But at work we decided to develop application using VS 2005 and Sqlserver 2005. So we bought and installed VS2005 professional edition at work and it also installed Sqlexpress during the installation as a defualt desktop engine. I am fine with that too. But i am not
understing where do i get the Management studio? Is it some thing i
could get it off the web for free or what? I am not sure we would have an option while installing the VS 2005 professional that also does install management studio and we need to check that option. I am not sure if we could get the management studion off the web for free and and evelop applications.

Please advise.
Thanks
-L

Off the SQL Server 2005 CD. I believe there is a Management Studio Express as well available for download from MS. Kind of a braindead way to do things, as I expect that a lot of VS 2005 Professionals will be in the same situation as me that I develop on SQL Express, and then push to SQL Server 2005 (I also need to manage SQL Server 2000 and 2005 machines as well). It would have been nice if they just put Management Studio in VS 2005 from the start. Management Studio can work with SQL Express, 2005, and most of 2000 (Optional DTS download needed).|||

Yes we can download the Management Studio Express for free from MS website. I did the same thing on my personal laptop. But can we develop applications using free downloaded Management Studio and deploy later on with the free stuff at work?

Or else like you have mentioned may be i want to get it off Sql server 2005.

May be you can help me figuring out where i can get it off

Its kind of confusing what to install of all the CDs we got when we bought the software.

Please bear with me the list of CDs we have is:

1).Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (Disc1 & Disc 2)

2)Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition 32-bit Cd1 & CD2)

3).Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition (32 bit) (Disc1 & Disc 2)

4).Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition IA 64-bit CD1 and CD2)

5).Microsoft Sql server 2005 Developer Edition for Itanium-based Systems (Disc 1 & Disc 2)

6).Microsoft Sql server 2005 Developer Edition (X64) (Disc 1 & Disc 2)

7).Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (Sql server 2005 Developer Edition 64-bit CD1 & CD2)

My work machine runs on Windows XP Prof . Of all the above CDs I installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional alone. So i have VS 2005 installed and also SQL Express.

Like you said can use #2 set of CDs to get Management Studio or #3 set of CDs(i have windows XP professional installed on my work machine)?

We have already ordered another development box from Dell and we are going to have Windows 2003 server on that. Correct me if i am wrong, #4,5, and 6 set of CDs are designed for 64-bit Windows 2003 server.

what is IA in #4 set of CDs and Itanium-based system in #5 respectively?

Am i getting you confusing with lot of stupid questions here :)?

I have lot of questions with the new stuff.

Thanks

-L

|||Wish I could help you. Unfortunately, I don't have a set of retail disks. My home machine has .ISO's I downloaded from MSDN (I have a personal MSDN Subscription), and at work, they install whatever I tell them to, but they lock up the disks and licenses.