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Contradictory messages

08 Dec 2007 ~ 1 min read


While attempting to create a database project in Visual Studio 2008 against a SQL Server 2008 database I got a rather odd error message. The dialog used to create the project requests information about the SQL Server database. It clearly states “The server version must be 2005 or later”. No problem, I thought. So I put in the information about my SQL Server and database in the dialog and tested the connection. So far so good. But as soon as I hit the “Okay” button I got a new message. Apparently, “Only servers up to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are supported.”

Contradictions


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Hi, I'm Colin. I'm a software engineer with over 30 years of experience based in central Scotland, specialising in Microsoft technologies, initially with C++ and then in C#. I was a Microsoft MVP from 2007 to 2010 and a Code Project MVP from 2005 to 2009.