I installed the Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 10 and then installed SQL Server 2012 successfully, I have connected to the server from Visual Studio but every time I try to add a service-based database to the windows form I'm creating, it says this
Connection to SQL Server requires SQL server 2005 express or SQL
Server 2008 Express to be installed and running on the local
computer...
What should I do now?
Don't know what happened but for some reason MS Visual Studio is no longer letting me to add or edit tables in Sever Explorer. When I right click on the "Tables" the only options I got are; refresh and properties. I tried re-installing MS Visual Studio and SQL Express Server but still having that same problem. Have no idea what else to do. I'm logged in as an Administrator on my computer.
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You need to install SQL Server Data Tools. I had the same problem and the option apppeared after I installed SQL Server Data Tools.
In what seems to be a very odd turn, I am trying to create a Sql Database project in Visual Studio 2012, and am getting this nutty error:
And clicking on either link leads to a Page Not Found at Microsoft.com, which is odd in itself.
From the bare text of the error message, which is (for search purposes):
Unable to open Database Project
This version of SQL Server Data Tools is not compatible with the
database runtime components installed on this computer.
Considering that I have Sql Server 2012 Developer Edition installed on the workstation, this seems incredible. I can open or create a database project in VS2008 with Sql Server 2012 DE installed, so why not VS 2012?
I Installed SQL Server 2012 Service pack 1 yesterday and then I started getting the problem you describe in Visual Studio 2012. Not only with database projects; I could not use the SQL Server Object Explorer, not open sql-scripts and lots of other weird database related errors. Always with the same message:
"This version of SQL Server Data Tools is not compatible with ... bla, bla, bla ..."
This solution helped me: https://web.archive.org/web/20150315060703/http://blog.wharton.com.au/2012/11/16/sql-server-2012-sp-1-breaks-sql-server-database-projects/
Hope this can help you too
Update:
With the March 2013 Release it seems you have to also update the SQL Server Data Tools available here See the comments in this post for more details.
Just downloading and installing the SQL Server Data Tools cured this for me;
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=274984
This happened to me in visual studio 2012 on an existing project after I installed visual studio 2013. Installing the 2012 tools fixed it as others have said but the link provided in previous answers wasn't the one I needed. the link that did it for me is here
Just in case the downloaded SQL Server Data Tools is not working. You can try to download this version:
SQL Server Data Tools download
I faced a similar issue but in my case its due to version difference.Refer attached image. so once upgrade with right version then prob solved to me. enter image description here
I have the latest VS 2012 RC and when I try to open an existing soulution that was written by another programmer in VS 2012, it says that the files csproj and sqlproj are incompatible with the version I am running. Any ideas why?
Install the Sql Server Data Tools for VS. Available from the Web Platform Installer or the SQL Server installer.
I created desktop application using c# ( visual studio 2010 ) and a database using sql server 2008.
and i made a setup project but the question is :
1- how to put the database files in my setup project?
2- how can i attach the database automatically in sql server 2008 express when i install the application on another machine?
3- there is another solution instead of install sql server 2008 express on the other machines i'll install the application on it (there is no network between them )?