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I am create Shopping cart for my project.But when i am run that project the below errors are araised..........

"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)"

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Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

SQLExpress database file auto-creation error:

The connection string specifies a local Sql Server Express instance using a database location within the application's App_Data directory. The provider attempted to automatically create the application services database because the provider determined that the database does not exist. The following configuration requirements are necessary to successfully check for existence of the application services database and automatically create the application services database:

If the application is running on either Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008R2, special configuration steps are necessary to enable automatic creation of the provider database. Additional information is available at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160102. If the application's App_Data directory does not already exist, the web server account must have read and write access to the application's directory. This is necessary because the web server account will automatically create the App_Data directory if it does not already exist.
If the application's App_Data directory already exists, the web server account only requires read and write access to the application's App_Data directory. This is necessary because the web server account will attempt to verify that the Sql Server Express database already exists within the application's App_Data directory. Revoking read access on the App_Data directory from the web server account will prevent the provider from correctly determining if the Sql Server Express database already exists. This will cause an error when the provider attempts to create a duplicate of an already existing database. Write access is required because the web server account's credentials are used when creating the new database.
Sql Server Express must be installed on the machine.
The process identity for the web server account must have a local user profile. See the readme document for details on how to create a local user profile for both machine and domain accounts.



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PrashantSonewane 17-Apr-13 6:48am    
check the server name in your connection string. Either connection string contains server name different than it should be (may be typo) or server is not running (check sqlserver processes).

If everything looks good, verify if sql server allows remote connection. Try this link.. may help

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walzenbach/archive/2010/04/14/how-to-enable-remote-connections-in-sql-server-2008.aspx
Rockstar_ 17-Apr-13 6:55am    
Put break point and go through each line and check where exactly it is throwing error.
Pheonyx 17-Apr-13 7:05am    
check that windows firewall is turned off on the server, or allows for connections to the SQL server. Check that the user has permissions, check that the remote machine can access the SQL server by either installing SQL Manager, or trying to set up a simple ODBC connection to the SQL server using the same username and password your connection string uses.
[no name] 17-Apr-13 8:24am    
Check you connection string.
TrushnaK 17-Apr-13 8:24am    
Connection string problem. may be your server name/ ip address may be wrong.

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It means your connection string is wrong. You need to fix that. The code can't connect to SQL using the connection string you have.
 
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