SQL SERVER not visible in VS 2005's "server explorer"

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Lior - 19 Feb 2007 03:29 GMT

i have VS 2005 PRO and SQL SERVER DEV installed. my VS's "server exloer"
doesn't show my SQL server. every time i want to edit or view a DB i have to
"add a connection". any ideas?

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Lior - 20 Feb 2007 18:27 GMT

maybe i should explain better: in "server explorer", i should be able to see
my sql server under the "servers" node. i don't. my editions are VS 2005 pro
sp1 and sql server developer sp2.
can it be a security config problem in sql?
any ideas?
please- somebody, anybody...

> i have VS 2005 PRO and SQL SERVER DEV installed. my VS's "server exloer"
> doesn't show my SQL server. every time i want to edit or view a DB i have to
> "add a connection". any ideas?

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pvdg42 - 23 Feb 2007 12:45 GMT

>i have VS 2005 PRO and SQL SERVER DEV installed. my VS's "server exloer"
> doesn't show my SQL server. every time i want to edit or view a DB i have
> to
> "add a connection". any ideas?

The info available in Server Explorer was changed for VS 2005. AFAIK, you
cannot configure it to show the available servers and associated databases
as it did in VS .NET 2003. However, the established Data Connections do
persist in my Server Explorer, so I don't have to recreate them each time I
need to see a particular database. Do your connections not persist between
Visual Studio sessions?

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