I am trying out Subsonic ActiveRecord to determine if I want to use it on any upcoming projects, and I gotta say I really like it so far. It worked great with MS SQL Server 2005 and 2008, but I am having problems with the T4 Templates and SQL Server Express. From what I can tell, Subsonic is having a problem getting the schema info from the Server Express database that I added to a test MVC app.
Does anyone have info on getting it to work with Server Server Express (not Compact), and whether its even supported in Subsonic 3.0.0.4?
EDIT: This is an MVC app with MyTestDB in the App_Data folder. I have tried a number of various connection strings but nothing seems to work. The last string I have used is:
<connectionStrings>
<add name="MyTestDBString" connectionString="server=.\SQLExpress;database=MyTestDB;integrated security=SSPI;User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionstrings>
With the above string I am getting an SQL exception in the error list in Visual Studio saying Cannot Open Database... The login failed. This happens when I right click on the .tt files and run a custom tool.