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I installed VS 2013 ultimate and Sql server compact 3.7.2 ,I opened my project but It seems that the SQlCe 3.5 link is grayed out and I can not open it and the other link of opening solution database causes an error and crashes VS .

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I do not want to change DB to version 4.0 ,Could you please help me opening the database

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You need to install the SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 runtime MSI(s)

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  • Then repair/reinstall, check the about dialog in the Toolbox to verify that your install is broken – ErikEJ May 21 '14 at 16:07
  • Yes, so repair/reinstall, as I said.. Did you upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1? – ErikEJ May 21 '14 at 16:18
  • Yes I did repair and uninstall/reinstall SqlCe toolkit but no change, No I Installed new copy of windows 8.1 last week. – ali haider May 21 '14 at 16:24
  • Did you re-install the SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 runtime MSIs? Not the Toolbox! – ErikEJ May 21 '14 at 16:25
  • Sorry I was not clear , I did repaired SQl server compact 3.5 SP2 and unistalled the toolkit and then reinstalled the toolkit and then I checked the registery according to your blog . – ali haider May 21 '14 at 16:32
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/54139/discussion-between-ali-haider-and-erikej). – ali haider May 21 '14 at 17:10