It looks like Query Designer is disabled in VS 2013, is this permanent "feature" or something that will be fixed in near futere?
steps to recreate:
using Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 ( Version 12.0.21005.1 REL ; Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5.50938 )
using Server Explorer, open SQL 2008 database, right click on table / show table date, data available in the table is displayed but query design tools are disabled.
It works when using VS 2012 or VS 2010. VS 2012 didn't work with SQL 2012 as far as query designer is concerned but worked with SQL 2008.
Does it mean that VS 2013 did big step "forward" (yeah right) and took care of Query designer regardless of what SQL database it is connecting with? I hope it will be fixed, I realize that I could use SQL Server Management studio or VS 2010 when working with database but this functionality was already available, why it is disabled now?
I got it
It works, if in data source you specify Microsoft SQL Server + .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB