Extend the sql server management studio

I'm looking for info/documentation about writing plugins for the management studio.
i'd like to extend the interface, for instance, alter the interface to allow scripting of all indexes for a table, by adding that option to the table context menu.

i'm also looking for a way to create macros in the query editor, so i can have pressing tab after writing a short word expand to a pre-selected template.

any help appreciated.

Check the following URL....

add-in to SQL Server Management Studio

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/enisey.asp?df=100&forumid=315231&exp=0&select=1908869

|||http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/archive/2005/11/16/493440.aspx you can as per Dan's blog out there, I believe your best bet would be to contact Microsoft dev.team for more information.

Extend existing report items

Hi,

I'm totally new to SSRS2005 and I was wondering if I could extend the existing report items. For instance, I'd like to add a few extra properties to the textbox report item. I tried wrting a custom Textbox control that inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Textbox. When I imported the dll in VS, the new textbox showed up in the toolbox, but it was grayed out.

Any idea what I'm missing here?

Thanks,
Phil
Best off writing your own and call the RS webservice.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa179578(SQL.80).aspx|||But I want to inherit all existing functionality of the textbox... So why would I create my own from scratch?
|||Sorry, completely barking up the wrong end of the stick.

I was on about report parameter selection.

I'm guessing you can't do it.

Use Crystal Reports instead: from what I have read on these forums, it seems to do most things that RS can't.

The only reason people use RS is because they are too tight to shell out for a decent product (this has been the case where I've worked)

RS is "free". How much time have I wasted at what cost to the companies I have worked for trying to get it to do the simplest of things. Suddenly it's not so cheap, but then MS have figured out that bean counters are incapable of factoring in all this wasted time.

If only dev's got to make the purchasing decisions......

expressions linked to parameters

Is it possible to link expressions to report parameters
for instance i have WTD, MTD and YTD sales targets in my DB and have
WTD, MTD and YTD as report Parameters can i do this?
If i select MTD link the Expression to say if MTD then Show MTD sales
target etc etcOn Jun 8, 10:23 am, blueboy <matt_me...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to link expressions to report parameters
> for instance i have WTD, MTD and YTD sales targets in my DB and have
> WTD, MTD and YTD as report Parameters can i do this?
> If i select MTD link the Expression to say if MTD then Show MTD sales
> target etc etc
If I'm understanding you correctly, you will want to access the values
of a parameter as opposed to if a parameter value has been selected or
not. Something like this should work:
=iif(Parameters!SalesTargetParam.Value = "MTD", Fields!
MTDSalesTarget.Value, Nothing)
Of course, this should also work:
=switch(Parameters!SalesTargetParam.Value = "WTD", Fields!
WTDSalesTarget.Value, Parameters!SalesTargetParam.Value = "MTD",
Fields!MTDSalesTarget.Value, Parameters!SalesTargetParam.Value ="YTD", Fields!YTDSalesTarget.Value, true, nothing)
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant