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4. Review the information on the Welcome page, and then click Next.
5. On the Specify Import Options page, select the option that allows you to import from
a data-tier application package.
6. Click the Browse button, and navigate to the folder in which you placed the .dacpac to
import. Select the le, and then click Open. Click Next to continue.
7. Review the report that shows the status of the import actions, as illustrated in Fig-
ure 3-4, and then click Finish.
FIGURE 3-4 Reviewing the results when importing an existing DAC into Visual Studio 2010
8. In Schema View, navigate to the dbo schema, navigate to the Tables, Views, and
Stored Procedures nodes, and verify that the objects created are now in the data-tier
application.
Data-tier developers and database administrators interested in working in Visual Studio
to initiate any of the actions mentioned in this section, such as importing or creating
a data-tier application, can refer to the article “Creating and Managing Databases and
Data-tier Applications in Visual Studio” at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library
/dd193245(VS.100).aspx.