I’m trying to find a way to browse a PostgreSQL database from the Visual Studio 2008 “Server Explorer” panel. I downloaded Npgsql but as I understand that’s only a library for the code itself, not the Server Explorer.
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I’m trying to find a way to browse a PostgreSQL database from the Visual Studio 2008 “Server Explorer” panel. I downloaded Npgsql but as I understand that’s only a library for the code itself, not the Server Explorer.
Npgsql is a .NET provider for PostgreSQL. Whether or not a given provider integrates with Server Explorer depends on whether it supports DDEX, which Npgsl as of now does not, but this support is planned for future versions.
However, if all you want to do is to be able to browse a PostgreSQL database in Server Explorer, you can do this by installing the psqlODBC, the PostgreSQL ODBC driver, and connecting via the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC.
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Also, I should mention that Npgsql DOES have some design-time integration with Visual Studio – for example you can use NpgsqlConnection objects from the toolbar and so forth.