Refresh data source view gets 'column' argument cannot be null

When I try to refresh a data source view in SQL Server 2008 BIDS, I get the error: System.Data 'column' argument cannot be null. Parameter name: column. How to resolve this? The underlying tables have no data yet.

Hi PCSQL66,
The error message should be caused by FOREIGN KEY constraint auto-generated. If you
add a FOREIGN KEY to the generated table, then you will see the error message after clicking refresh button. Please submit this issue to below official link and then post the link back here, I think we need to get confirmation from product group.
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer
Thanks,
RaymondRaymond Li - MSFT

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