As I noted in my last post, I inherited a new pc from a co-worker who quit. A beautifully quiet machine.

Well, at lunch the other day, I decided to do a little work on my freelance project. Not that big of a deal, it's an ASP.NET 2.0 website, and I keep a copy of all the data structures in a SQL Server Express database for development purposes. That way, I have my development system with me all the time (on a thumbdrive) and I don't have to worry about using my employer's bandwidth if I do work on it at lunch.

Imagine my surprise when I went to launch the thing in debug mode and it immediately collapses in error on a DropDownList's databind call.

So, I went home, it launched perfectly from home and everything worked perfectly.

Now, I was really confused. Well, I have a project I'm working on which uses a SQL Express database as a datastore. And lo and behold it fails to launch as well.

Getting angry, I tried to open the server up in the SQL Management tool only to get shot down there by some arcane error message.

And that's when I remembered that the machine was probably set up under my co-workers account. Which means that his corporate account is the one with permissions to the SQL Server running on this box. I have yet to test my theory (which as far as I can tell means uninstalling and then reinstalling the SQL Server 2005 toolset.

If anyone else out there has any other ideas on what can be done, I'll happily listen to them, as it will probably be Friday at the earliest before I have a chance to deal with this problem (the joys of getting ramped up on currently ongoing projects - even if you're one of the ones that laid the groundwork for the system).