Totally frustrated with SQL Server Express Install

Before updating my PC to Windows 8.1 I had a working VS 2008 environment and SQL Express 2005. Now that I have upgraded the OS, I am unable to get any version of SQL Server Express to work with my version of Visual Studio. I spent a couple of weeks trying
to get what should have been a very simple process of creating a working connection string. None of the examples on several "connection string" web sites worked. I had difficulty installing the correct version and finally zeroed in on SQL
Server Express 2008 (SP3).  Then, after several posts to community forums I discovered it should have been installed BEFORE I installed VS 2008 ... so, very reluctantly, I uninstalled EVERY SQL Server related file and EVERY VS 2008 file on my system. 
Reinstalled SQL Server 2008 (SP3), SQL Server Management Studio 2104 (even though I selected SSMS 2008 from the MS Download site), then installed VS 2008.  I opened and created a test DB using SSMS 2014 and everything seems to work.  BUT, when I
try to access the table from VS 2008 I pretty much am running into similar issues.... Like an earlier post on a frustrated user, WHY is it so difficult now?

Hello,
You can use Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 installed, but SQL Server 2005 is not supported on Windows 8. I will recommend you to uninstall
SQL Server 2005 via Control Panel or use the following article for that purpose:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967
Once SQL Server 2005 is uninstalled you can install other newer versions of SQL Server. SQL Server 2008 requires SP3 to make it compatible with Windows 8, while SQL Server 2008 R2 requires SP1. For more information, please read the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2681562
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

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    Microsoft Corporation   4/29/2007
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    Microsoft Corporation   1217/2011
    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier App...                    
    Microsoft Corporation   1217/2011
    Microsoft SQL Se1Ver 2008 R2 Management ...                   
    Microsoft Corporation   1217/2011
    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Transact-SQL ...                    
    Microsoft Corporation   12/7/2011
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Command Line ...                 
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Fr...              
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB                 
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Management Ob...               
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client                        
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL Co...                    
    Microsoft Corporation   9/21/2012
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL Ser...            
    Microsoft  Corporation 2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Language ...             
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
    Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Design T...                     
    Microsoft Corporation   2/14/2008
    Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU                       
    Microsoft Corporation   5/25/2010
    Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0SP1 ENU                        
    Microsoft Corporation   9/21/2012
     Microsoft SQL Se1Ver Data Tools - enu (11.1....                 
    Microsoft Corporation   5/19/2013
     Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - enu (12.0....            
    Microsoft Corporation  2/10/2014
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    Microsoft Corporation   5/19/2013
     Microsoft 
    SQL Server Data  Tools Build   Utiliti ...         
    Microsoft  Corporation 2/10/2014
     Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing ...                     
    Microsoft Corporation   2/14/2008
    Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing ...                      
    Microsoft Corporation   5/25/2010
    Microsoft SQL Server Native Client                                      
    Microsoft Corporation   4/1/2011
    Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (E...                    
    Microsoft Corporation   4/1/2011
    Microsoft SQL Se1Ver System CLR Types                             
    Microsoft Corporation   1217/2011
    Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer                                         
    Microsoft Corporation   4/1/2011

    Hello,
    Please read the following resources:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms233763.aspx
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20333518/how-to-create-a-database-in-ms-visual-studio-2013
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb643825.aspx
    Hope this helps.
    Regards,
    Alberto Morillo
    SQLCoffee.com

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