- Visual studio 2015
- Close visual studio
- eventvwr
- check if any devenv error(s) in Application like
The data source '{7931728a-ebfb-4677-ad6b-995e29aa15c2}' specifies no supporting providers or a set that are not registered.
- regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config\DataProviders\
- Delete the key(s) that referred to the faulty data provider above
- eg. npgsql
- npgsql uninstaller leaves the registry information which causes this error...
cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8217115/new-connection-fails-during-add-new-data-source-dialog