I’ve ran into problem very similar to this. I have a .dbproj Visual Studio database project. It deploys just fine in SQL Server Express. Now I want to deploy it to SQL Azure – I change the connection parameters but deployment fails with the following text:
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.TSqlTasks.targets(120,5): Error Deploy01234: The target database schema provider could not be determined. Deployment cannot continue.
Done executing task “SqlDeployTask” — FAILED.
Is deploying .dbproj projects to SQL Azure supported? How do I make Visual Studio deploy the database into SQL Azure? What are other ways to achieve more or less the same results except recreating the database manually using Azure portal?
As far as I know, Database projects are still not supported by Windows Azure. You can deploy the project to a local SQL server and then use the “Generate Scripts” feature to port the database to SQL Azure. See this link.