SQL 2000 Not Supported by .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server in VS2010's Server Explorer D

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Published on 2010-04-29T14:02:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 14:07 UTC
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Just tried creating a data connection to a SQL 2000 database in VS2010's Server Explorer using a .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (versus OLE) and found that it didn't work.

VS2010 complained that I had to use SQL Server 2005 and up.

This used to work in VS2008 (using .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server instead of the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB).

Is this just a VS2010 restriction or has the ability to connect to SQL 2000 with .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server been obsoleted in a post-2.0 version of .NET being used by VS2010?

Anyone know why this was done by MS (please don't speculate - I can do that myself ;>)?

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