MySQL Bugs: #75414: MySQL connctor for Visual Studio 2013 is not showing in Tools menu

Bug #75414	MySQL connctor for Visual Studio 2013 is not showing in Tools menu
Submitted:	5 Jan 2015 21:29	Modified:	9 May 2016 11:46
Reporter:	Johan Lijffijt	Email Updates:
Status:	Can't repeat	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / NET	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:		OS:	Windows (8.1 Enterprise)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Hello,

I can not get the connector to work for Visual Studio 2013. Is there an issue when using Windows 8.1 Enterprise?

I got this to work on a different machine with Windows 7 

Thanks

How to repeat:
I installed the connector but i can not see the MYSQL datasource in the tools menu datasources.

Suggested fix:
What is the correct order of installing for a system with windows 8 and vs 2013?

There is no any issue with Windows 8.x Please check the version that you are using with the Visual Studio environment. Connector/Net newer versions don't have the Visual Studio integration included. You can use 6.6.x version or previous for integration with Visual Studio 2010. If you want to use Visual Studio 2013 with the MySQL graphical tools you would need the MySQL for Visual Studio product, which can be downloaded here: 

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/visualstudio/ 

And also make sure the version you use from Visual Studio is either Community, Professional or Ultimate. Express versions are not supported. 

Finally the driver is used for develop applications but it does not include the Visual Studio integration.

The documentation about the integration with Visual Studio is here:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-visual-studio-install.html

Please check it and let us know if this worked for you.

Ok, 

I had some earlier versions of visual studio on my system so i was thinking maybe this is the problem. Removed all versions of Visual Studio and reinstalled 

Visual Studio 2013 Professional Version 12.0.21005.1 REL 
Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5.51641 

Using Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit 

After this i installed 

MySQL Workbench 6.2.4 (x64) 
MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.3 (x86) 
Connector/NET 6.9.5 (x86) 

Still no MySQL Datasource option available in VS 2013 

What can be wrong? 

Thanks! 

Johan

Installation log

Attachment: MYSQL_VS2013.txt (text/plain), 77.75 KiB.

Hello,

I have uninstalled all again and restarted my system. According to the instructions of the VS2013 connector i first installed VS2013 MySQL for Visual Studio , restarted my system (just to be sure) and then installed the connector. I have added the installation log to this case. 

I do not see anything wrong in this log but maybe you can find something wrong.

Thanks!

Johan

Hello  Johan Lijffijt,

Thank you for your feedback.
I could not repeat the issue at our end using with Visual Studio 2013, Connector/NET 6.9.8 and MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.6.
If you can provide more information, feel free to add it to this bug and change the status back to 'Open'.

Thank you for your interest in MySQL.

Thanks,
Chiranjeevi.

Screenshot.

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