I am trying to add a database to the App\_Data location in an ASP.NET MVC 2 application in Visual Studio 2008 (VS).

I have SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition installed on the local machine. However when adding the database VS complains that SQL Server 2005 Express is required. I configured VS to use the local server instance (MSSQLSERVER) which is the developer edition. It still failed.

I installed SQL Server 2005 Express on the machine and configured VS to use the Express server instance (SQLEXPRESS) and the database creation started working. 

My questions is whether there is a way to get VS to use the developer edition of SQL Server.