Arvixe Hosting and Visual Studio SQL Server Database Projects - sql

I am using Arvixe to host my sql server and websites, and would like to begin managing my database with a Visual Studio SQL Server database project so that I can get some source control going on the backend.
When I try to script my database's CREATE TO statement or use Visual Studio's import wizard, I get a permissions error:
Requires VIEW DEFINITION, ALTER ANY LOGIN, and SELECT ON sys.sql_expression_dependencies or be a member of db_owner role.
Has anyone had any luck managing an Arvixe sql server database with Visual Studio Database Projects, or have any tips for using the tools without those permissions? Their Tech support has been unable to help so far.
Edit: I am a member of db_owner, but i think Arvixe restricts permissions since its a shared server instance.

you don't have enough permission on database. you must to have db_owner permission.

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When the process runs, there are a number of databases it can find, that need to be removed. I have removed these, but it is saying there is still one database: Tfs_Analysis.
I have looked in the server and I cannot see the database in the list of databases. I have full permissions on the server, so it is not a case of it being there and I cannot see it.
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Can we remove Optimize Database Job (Release Management)?
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What is impact for TFS to remove "Agent User Role" from MSDB database?
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The followings are some highlight points for your quick reference:
sysadmin and serveradmin for all databases that TFS uses.
CREATE DATABASE - We need this permission to be able to create configuration, collection, and warehouse database.
Reporting Services: Team Foundation Content Manager and either sysadmin or the db_owner group membership for the configuration database, the reporting and analysis databases, and the databases for team project collections.
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Hullo everyone.
After restoring a backup (comprehensive of security information) of AdventureWorksDW cube I am unable to log into it using windows authentication.
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Visual Studio database project won't deploy to SQL Azure

I've ran into problem very similar to this. I have a .dbproj Visual Studio database project. It deploys just fine in SQL Server Express. Now I want to deploy it to SQL Azure - I change the connection parameters but deployment fails with the following text:
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.TSqlTasks.targets(120,5): Error Deploy01234: The target database schema provider could not be determined. Deployment cannot continue.
Done executing task "SqlDeployTask" -- FAILED.
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When we first built DB projects, SQLAzure was still going through its identity crisis and didn't know what it wanted to be. ;)
DBProjects support a significant superset of capabilities vs. SQLAzure. Therefore, it's quite possible that it'll create scripts that won't run against SQLAzure.
I know that the team who took-over the DBProject tooling were looking at restricting the database project generators to output SQLAzure-compatible scripts, but I don't know how far they got or whether they decided to proceed.
I echo dunnry's suggestion above and use the SQL Azure Migration Wizard or Jeremy's and use SQL 2008 R2 and generate Azure-compatible scripts.