AHA!!!! I finally found the answer. I needed to use the right instance of my (localdb). SSDT (.sqlproj) creates an instance called Projects
in the LocalDB instead of the default workspace V11.0
.
So in the screenshot above I needed to change the "Server Name:" to (localdb)\Projects
instead of the generic instance (localdb)\\v11.0
. Then it all started to flow together like the magic that it is.