Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010 ultimate edition and i install it with full components.

Now i working on win form project in which i need to include a local database so whenever i am trying to add local database file(mydata.sdf) in my project then a box comes showing this message:

Data provider required to connect to local data file could not be found.The file will be added to project but the typed dataset associated with the file will not be generated.

So please suggest me how can i solve this problem?

-Thanks

Answer 1

The sdf file extension is used for SQL Server Compact Edition databases. You need to download and install the support for this separately from visual studio.

Here is a link to the MSDN documentation for this.

Note that tooling support was not added to Visual Studio 2010 until SP1.