I've added an alias of "." which should point to my local (named) instance, ".\SQL2008". But when I try to connect to ".", it times out.

Am I missing something or is this not allowed?

"." Alias Not Working

Timeout

Aliases I've tried which do not work:

(Set for both 32 and 64-bit, I've also tried leaving the port blank.)

Aliases which do not work.

sql-server-2008 sql-server-2008-r2 connection-string alias
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