How to add LocalDB to Visual Studio 2015 Community's SQL Server Object Explorer?

Question

Problem

I don\'t understand how to make LocalDB show up in the SQL Server Object Explorer. On some VMs, it shows up automatically, on some other VMs, it doesn\'t. S

Answer 1

My App.config looks as below:


  
    
    

  
  
    
      
        
      
    
    
      
    
  

I noticed that there is localDB in the path that you mentioned above and has the version v11.0. So I entered (LocalDB\V11.0) in Add Connection dialogue and it worked for me.