Add-in for SQL Server Mnagement Studio 2005

Hi,
I notice that a few third party SQL Server tool developers (RedGate
for example) have started to sell utilities that appear as add-ins
to
SQL Server Management Studio 2005 (with additional menu's and
dialogs).
I cant find any documentation on how you do this. Is it an
unsupported hack ? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction
on how I would work out how to do this.
(Sorry for the cross post, I posted the same message in
microsoft.public.sqlserver.server by mistake).
Thanks in advance,
Matt
Asked and answered in .server. Please refrain from multiposting.

Adam Machanic
SQL Server MVP - http://sqlblog.com
Author, "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development"
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10220
<matt_randle@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I notice that a few third party SQL Server tool developers (RedGate
> for example) have started to sell utilities that appear as add-ins
> to
> SQL Server Management Studio 2005 (with additional menu's and
> dialogs).
>
> I cant find any documentation on how you do this. Is it an
> unsupported hack ? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction
> on how I would work out how to do this.
> (Sorry for the cross post, I posted the same message in
> microsoft.public.sqlserver.server by mistake).
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
>
|||Adam Machanic (amachanic@.IHATESPAMgmail.com) writes:
> Asked and answered in .server. Please refrain from multiposting.
Hey, he did after all say:
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And this groups is certainly the appropriate one for the topic.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
|||Ok. Thanks for your reply (in the other group). If I can work out
how to do it, ill put up a blog post explaining it. I notice that it
will be a supported feature in the next release of SSMS though so may
just wait for that.
Thanks.
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