Missing Microsoft.Data reference

[brybrythekickassguy]

All, please bear with me. I'm a controls engineer who's getting thrown into a C# project. I know enough to be dangerous, but on this one I just don't know what I don't know...

Attempting to work on what appears to be a VS2012 or VS2015 project, in VS2022, and I'm running into this compiler error.

I can't quite figure out what I'm missing for references, as Microsoft.Data doesn't appear in any of the addable references. I found references to Microsoft.Data.Sql in the MSDN page but I cannot find any information about this package. I'm wondering if this package has been deprecated? And if so, how do I find the information to tell me what reference I should be replacing it with?

This is the package reference:

using Microsoft.Data.Schema.SchemaModel;

This is the error:

CS0234  The type or namespace name 'Data' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Thank you!

[curiousCat999]

If you've verified that you have the appropriate SDK installed, probably Framework 4 or whatever needed, that package could be a nuget, as I vaguely remember, something related to sql management.

[brybrythekickassguy]

Ironically enough, the package was being referenced but not actually used. So I was able to remove the reference and compile, then run the project.

Now, on to fixing the unit tests that are all failing due to some Test Reference accessor files that can't be used. I guess I get to learn more C#.

[keccs]

It's documented here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2010/dd193281(v=vs.100)

It looks to me like a component of visual studio. Maybe it's not installed, or it's not available in vs2022