title: Incompatible SQL Server version found with Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2014
body: <p>Recently upgraded to SQL server 2014 from SQL 2008 R2 and SQL server object explorer in Visual Studio 2010 professional is no longer recognising my 2014 database.</p>
  
  <p>When trying to add a database I get this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Incompatible SQL Server version found"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/archive/2014/01/30/ssdt-and-visual-studio-versions.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20ssdtblog%20%28SQL%20Server%20Developer%20Tools%20Team%20Blog%29" rel="nofollow">MSDN blog about SSDT</a></p>
  
  <p>I tried installing SSDT 2014 for VS 2012 hoping that VS 2010 problem will get some how resolved, but not to avail.</p>
  
  <p>The normal server explorer is able to connect to the SQL2014 instance, but there are a lot of stored procedures and the interface is a bit slow.</p>
  
  <p>The blog suggests to upgrade to VS 2012 or later version.</p>
  
  <p>But is there any way to stay in VS 2010 and access SQL 2014 with SQL server object explorer.</p>