Re: Visual Studio 2005 not happy with postgresql

Dear Tobias,

I have the same problem with visual studio 2005. The beta’s worked perfectly but since the RTM version I’m experiencing the same.

Already filed this complaint to MS.

I have a schema public and meet all the previous requirements. So far I haven’t been able to crack this one and recoded my application to use npgsql which has a commandbuilder but not the nice gui features.

In the postgresql log you actually see VS querying all the data (tables etc.) but they simply don’t display. Also the automatic generation of update, delete and insertcommands does not work anymore.

Perhaps this helps.. (a bit ;) )

Cheers,

Paul

• Postgresql 8.1 installed on windows XP (machine 1) with DB up and running. I can access/change/see all my tables, etc with EMS Postgresql manager
• On Machine 2 (windows XP) I've installed the pg ODBC drivers 8.01.01 and created a System DSN to machine 1
• I tested this DSN with MS Access, and I could see my tables, add items, launch queries
• Now, I need to use Visual Studio 2005 (with .Net 2.0) for our project and would like to be able to create XSD files visually (using the VS2005 built-in tools). In VS2005 Server Explorer, I created a new Database Connection, using the Microsoft ODBC Data Source (ODBC) with the .Net ODBC Data Provider selected. Pointed the thing to my working ODBC DSN and tested the connection
• Connection works (says VS2005)
• Now I have a new Data Connection in the Server Explorer, with 3 tree entries; Tables, Views, Procedures. My problem is that "Tables" is empty, "Views" is empty but "Procedures" contains hundreds of postgres functions.
• I would like to see my tables and views!

• I tried OLEDB, whitout success either. VS2005 says that there where "some" errors and that "no work could be done"... cool he?!