"Lau Lei Cheong" <leu***@yehoo.com.hk> wrote in message
news:OYKTiKGLGHA.3064@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
>    I'm currently using VS2003 with MSSQL 2000 and consider moving to
> VS2005. Although I understand both version of .NET framework with work
> side-by-side, to avoid possible version conflicts I decide to do a fresh
> install.
>
>    From some of the previous articles it seems there is "recommanded
> installation order" - i.e. install VS2005 first, than SQL2005. While in
> VS2003, SQL2000 is recommanded to be installed first.
>
>    So what is the recommanded installation order for VS2005 and SQL2000 to
> work together? (We're not planning to upgrade most of our SQL servers to
> SQL2005 in near future as most of our applications are still using
> SQL2000, and most of our clients have no plan to upgrade yet.)
>
> Regards,
> Lau Lei Cheong
>
>