Importing database file into visual studio 2017 gives an error “cannot be opened because its version 869”

Question

I just upgraded from Visual Studio 2015 to 2017 and from SQL Server 2016 to 2017 and.

I have never had any problem with importing a database file into the Visual Studio project with older versions of respective software until today where I got this error:

Answer 1

The problem was with visual studio which was using an sql instance for 2016, that is why it was not reading the database file created by sql server 2017. i fixed it by creating a new sql instance for sql localdb 2017 using sqllocaldb create which created the instance with the latest version of MSSQL(2017). Thank you all for your help.