How to connect to LocalDB in Visual Studio Server Explorer?

In Visual Studio 2012 all I had to do was enter: (localdb)\v11.0 Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017 changed to: (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB as the server name when adding a Microsoft SQL Server Data source in: View/Server Explorer/(Right click) Data Connections/Add Connection and then the database names were populated. I didn’t need to do all the …

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