Visual Studio 2015 crashes when adding new data source

Question

i am building project and i use entity framework i need to create a new data source to use it to read and write from the data base like this tutorial :-https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/connector-net-tutorials-entity-framework-winform-data-source.html at this step in Entity Data Source Configuration Wizard it always crashes

Answer 1

I would do the following:

1. Update Visual Studio
2. Ensure all the plugins are also updated.

If that doesn't resolve your issue, I would boot Visual Studio into Safe Mode.

START /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\" devenv.exe /safemode

If it works in Safe Mode, it could be a plugin. However, if you update all initially it should resolve your issue. You'll also want to ensure you do have the SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio, otherwise it will fail.