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Can't find servers in Data Connection in Visual Studio 2012?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj193542

I'm following the tutorial in the link above, and when I get to the step "Connect to either LocalDb ((localdb)\v11.0) or SQL Express (.\SQLEXPRESS), depending on which one you have installed" in the "Where's my data" section, the server name drop down is blank. I have LocalDB installed, and the program is writing to a database since following the previous steps of the tutorial I created two tables that were saved, but for some reason I can't add a connection to any server in Database Explorer.

I'm using Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop.

Solution

  • If it's blank it means you never set it up before so add it manually, if you are not sure what to put as the server name you can try .