Hi All,
I'm using Visual Studio 2017 Express and SQL Server 2014 Express.
I created a new ASP.NET Web Application Project - Web Forms withIndividual User Accounts authentication.
This, of course, means that as soon as I run the application and register a new user, an SQL database is automatically created in theApp_Data folder. That all works fine.
However, I'd like to be able to access this database using SQL Server 2014 Express - because you get more options (such as backup and restore) than inVS2017's SQL Server Object Explorer.
But when I use SQL Server 2014 Express to attach the database I get the message:
"The database <DB-NAME> cannot be opened because it is version 852. This server supports version 782 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported."
Okay so VS2017 uses a more up to date SQL Server than SQL Server 2014 (versions 13.0.4001 and 12.0.2269 respectively).
So I can't access it from SQL Server 2014 and I can't installSQL Server 2016 because I'm using Windows 7 and don't fancy upgrading the entire operating system.
Or going back to VS2015.
Or buying a new computer.
So my questions are:
(1) Is there some way to backup and restore a database using VS2017's SQL Server Object Explorer?
(2) And just as you can target a project to an earlier .NET Framework version, can you do the same with SQL Servers? Is there some way I can tell VS2017 to use SQL Server 2014 rather than itsbuilt in and apparently newer one?
Any assistance would be very gratefully received.
