Solved: “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk. The system cannot find the file specified”

Ned Sahin

6 years ago

You may run into the error below while doing development in Visual Studio:

Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Solution

You are missing SQL Server libraries that connects Visual Studio to SQL Server database. In order to fix this issue, download and install these two packages from the following URL.

SharedManagementObjects.msi
DB2OLEDBV5_x64.msi

Download: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35580

Note: The URL above is for SQL Server 2012. Download libraries for the version you use if it is not 2012 version.