{"id":322,"date":"2011-03-18T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jcrawfor74.wordpress.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2012-03-16T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:44:20","slug":"sql-server-2008-r2-intellisense-not-working-visual-studio-2010-sp-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/sql-server-2008-r2-intellisense-not-working-visual-studio-2010-sp-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008 R2 &#8211; Intellisense not working &#8211; Visual Studio 2010 SP 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-2782563765\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Recently intellisense in the SQL Server management Studio stopped working.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that it was caused by the installation of Visual Studio 2010 SP1.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was raised here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/SQLServer\/feedback\/details\/650569\/ssms-2008-r2-is-losing-intellisense-after-installing-visual-studio-2010-sp1\" target=\"_new\">https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/SQLServer\/feedback\/details\/650569\/ssms-2008-r2-is-losing-intellisense-after-installing-visual-studio-2010-sp1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was originally suggested that this could fixed by SQL Server 2008 R2 Cumulative Update #6, but this in turn lead to a crash in Visual Studio 2010 when ever you opened a .sql file in your database projects.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/feedback\/details\/653180\/method-not-found-opening-files-in-database-project\" target=\"_new\">https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/feedback\/details\/653180\/method-not-found-opening-files-in-database-project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It suggested that this issue has been fixed and will be released in SQL Server 2008 R2 Cumulative Update #7, which was due out in Mid April.<\/p>\n<p>You can install Cumulative Update #6 and in most cases this will get intellisense working in SSMS but it will break Intellisense (on database projects) in VS2010. <\/p>\n<p>So if you are like me, you are between a rock and a hard place, your choice of which environment you prefer to have working. <\/p>\n<p>Lets hope that CU #7 fixes it.<\/p>\n<p>I will update this post with my results after I have applied CU #7.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update as @ 19th April<\/p>\n<p>Today Microsoft has released <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2507770\">Cumulative Update package 7 for SQL Server 2008 R2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After downloading and installing, preliminary results are that the problem is solved.<\/p>\n<p>Intellisense in SSMS seems to be working and I no longer get the crashes in Visual Studio 2010 and Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 database projects also seem to be working correctly. So, so far so good.<\/p>\n<h2>Update as of Nov 2011<\/h2>\n<p>As someone has pointed out the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/en\/details.aspx?id=26727\" title=\"SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1\">SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1<\/a> is supposed to fix this issue, (as it contains all the rolled up cumulative updates). <\/p>\n<p>I personally have had mixed results with some machines working again and others having &#8220;Intellisense&#8221; working in SQL management Studio but remaining broken in Visual Studio 2010. My main work Development environment is still broken in this way and if I ever get it working I will udpate you on what I had to do, but for now I am living with only having intellisense in the SQL management studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Recently intellisense in the SQL Server management Studio stopped working. It appears that it was caused by the installation of Visual Studio 2010 SP1. 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