Newbie - ? on MsSQL

I had ms sql server 2000 in my PC. I am very new to ASP.NET as i have been working on PHP n MySQL for the past 3 years. Now i am moving to .NET framework 2. I installed visual studio express 2005 and then sql server 2005.

But now that i run sql 2000, it does connect me to localhost. but on sql 2005 i cant. can some one shade some light to this.

I have not used SQL server before and am just starting to learn it with ASP.NET 2. I am programmer that likes to code each and every line of codes but ASP.NET is a bit different. Well anyway, cheers

Try using a . instead of localhost in your connection string.