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Carl Dun
Carl Dun

Reputation: 235

No Local Database on Microsoft Visual Studio 2015?

I just installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and when I tried to create a local database, there wasn't an option available.

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Some people said I needed to download/install it separately but I already tried these 3 options:

  1. I tried downloading and installing the separate LocalDB Installer to no avail. enter image description here

  2. Updated Microsoft Visual Studio through Extension and Updates and it gave me an SSDTSetup file (Or same exe file can be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt186501)

  3. Some people suggested to go back to Microsoft Visual Studio 2015's installer and there's an option there to install it but I see no such option even after expanding all of the options.

I'm confused since last time I installed Microsoft Visual Studio there was an option like this (last year I think).

The local database looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXYfOM1Dqw (at 1:58 of the video).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 335

Answers (1)

ErikEJ
ErikEJ

Reputation: 41749

That template is no longer available, but using my free SQL Compact Toolbox extension you can easily add a SQL Server Compact database to your project and generate code to work with it on top. Microsoft's recommendation is to use SQL Server Express (Service-based database) instead.

Upvotes: 2

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