How to fix Visual Studio's error “This server version is not supported…” for SQL Server 2012

Question

I recently installed Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2012 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine - (including all updates/Service Packs).

When attempting to work on a

Answer 1

Following MSDN blog link discusses about the issue that you are facing with local SQL Server database instance in Visual Studio 2010.

Using LocalDB in Visual Studio 2010