SMSS18 can't connect to LocalDb

Question

Something has gone awry from my local machine. Everything used to work fine. Now, I can't connect to (localdb)\mssqllocaldb .

Running the application locally from Visual Studio 2022 connects fine. It's using the following connection string: "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=[DatabaseName];Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"

From SMSS18, I get the following:

Here's my login screen:

What am I doing wrong? What can I change to fix this?

Answer 1

I had this issue and this solution worked for me:

And connect to master database: