

For a list of third-party vendors that offer ADO.NET data providers that enable deep integration with Visual Studio tooling, see ADO.NET Data Providers. The following list includes some of the more popular database systems that can be used in Visual Studio projects.

For more information, see Use the Azure Storage Emulator for development and testing. If you are using Azure storage APIs, install the Azure storage emulators on your local machine during development in order to avoid charges until you are ready to deploy to production. Many providers are offered through the NuGet Package Manager or through the Visual Studio Marketplace. A provider must specifically support Entity Framework if you plan to use Entity data models in your. NET applications and to be visible in Visual Studio data tools windows, it must have an ADO.NET data provider. This LocalDB instance is useful for developing data-connected applications quickly and easily.įor a database system to be accessible from. Visual Studio installs SQL Server Express LocalDB on your machine as part of the Data storage and processing workload. To develop a data-connected application in Visual Studio, you typically install the database system on your local development machine, and then deploy the application and database to a production environment when they are ready.

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code
