Drag and Drop from server explorer not working

Question

I found today that drag and drop from server it's not working.

I think that's because I've installed some days ago VS 11 Beta.

After that I faound many problems with .NET 4.5 so I've uninstall it but it seems something remains there.

Or maybe because I've updated the database to SQL Server 2012.

How can I correct this ?

I am using Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Thank you !

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Sorin Sandu

Answer 1

I have the exact same issue, and it was because I installed developer preview.

Sorry I can't help, but i have tried to reinstall everything, and this still didn't fix anything.

Answer 2

I wonder why thet didn't put a disclaimer or a warning that VS 11 Beta will break VS 2010 (in fact .NET 4.5 breaks .NET 4)

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Sorin Sandu

Answer 3

This is not answered yet. Unmark answered.

I tried to repair visual studio 2010, reapply the sp1 but it still does not work. I connect to a sql 2008 r2 server.

Answer 4

Yes, I no idea why someone would mark my reply as answer.

I have investigated further, and found this issue I also have:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqltools/thread/6a159935-b454-4e95-9553-32a4b390adf1

And it talks about this: vcRunTimeMinimum_x86.msi

But I have no idea where that msi package is from. I tried to look through msdn subscriber downloads, but couldn't find it.

But, may aswell keep this thread open for good ideas on how to solve this very annoying issue

Answer 5

I found a solution for this on my machine. I found this thread talking about an error with the show table data option in the server explorer.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vstsdb/thread/d65c71f5-3887-4f2a-bbd3-e799a4ac6fdc/

About two thirds the way down the page (post on 1st Jan 2012) Justin Fortmann talks about the Visual Database Tools DLL. It's located here.

The directory and file name of the DLL (on an X64 machine) is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\Visual Database Tools\dsref80.dll

When I replaced this with a VS2010 DLL my drag and drop problem was resolved. Just to be sure you have the right DLL right click and view properties and it must say VS2010 in the product name field.

Answer 6

Your answer worked perfectly for me. Thanks you. It has been so annoying to have that issue.

Answer 7

Ahh, mucho thanks.

Had to hunt a little for this one.