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    <p>I have a WPF application deployed via ClickOnce. This application uses a SQL Server Express database. I am trying to access my user instance of the database so that I can access the database that I am currently using when debugging so that I can verify writes to the DB made by entity framework. However, when I try to open the user instance using the direct pipe name: "\.\pipe\3FCB3BEB-9ACF-4E\tsql\query". I connect fine but when I expand the "Databases" node I get the following error:</p> <blockquote> <p>TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management</p> <h2>Studio</h2> <p>Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc)</p> <p>For help, click: <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&amp;LinkId=20476" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&amp;LinkId=20476</a></p> <p>------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:</p> <p>An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)</p> <hr> <p>Unable to open the physical file "C:\Users\mark.ti\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\Data\RJ9HCXPL.ZWT\7VHVB97B.EB2\abcd..tion_b144089e1fe9cf01_0001.0000_b03f40a7888c1e15\Data\Resources\Data\MyDatabase.mdf". Operating system error 3: "3(The system cannot find the path specified.)". (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 5120)</p> <p>For help, click: <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&amp;ProdVer=09.00.4035&amp;EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&amp;EvtID=5120&amp;LinkId=20476" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&amp;ProdVer=09.00.4035&amp;EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&amp;EvtID=5120&amp;LinkId=20476</a></p> <p>------------------------------ BUTTONS:</p> <h2>OK</h2> </blockquote> <p>The path does exist, its where the ClickOnce application was deployed to after install. After uninstalling the application, I still get this error, although, now the path truly is gone.</p> <p>I have tried re-starting my SQL Server Express service to see if that will clear our the user instances but that didn't seem to work.</p> <p>Has anybody else encountered this error when working with SQL Server Express? What is the problem here caused by? How do I reset the user instance database refereces?</p>
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