SSMS 18.0 support?

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  SQL Source Control is officially supported on SSMS 18.0 and it should appear just as it does in other versions of SSMS. It should be in the tools menu if it doesn't appear on startup.
  

  jackdewinter May 02, 2019 08:30

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  Didn't appear in any of the tools menus, but I managed to fix it.
  
  For anyone else reading this, I had two side-by-side installations of SSMS (17 and 18). To get it to work in 18, I took these steps:
  

  1. Open the old version of SSMS (where SQL Source Control still works)
  2. Enabled "frequent updates"
  3. Updated SQL Source control
  4. Searched for updates
  5. Updated to the latest version
  6. It now appeared in SSMS 18

  fooly May 02, 2019 18:50

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  Install order is also important - prior to getting this working, when you installed SSMS 18 did you then install SoC, or just install SSMS and expect SoC to be there?
  

  Russell D May 07, 2019 07:37

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  No, I didn't initially expect it to just be there, but I got confused as there are no options to reinstall the software via the provided installers - everything remains grayed out even if a new version of SSMS has been installed. I didn't want to risk going through the pain of uninstalling via control panel and reinstalling the software (and thereby losing all my settings) on the off-chance that install order was the issue, but I was able to essentially reinstall the software and keep my settings intact by updating it via the frequent updates settings (if that makes sense).

  fooly May 08, 2019 17:54

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  Yes that makes sense. Unfortunately we've had issues with SSMS 18 as I'm sure you've seen. Sorry for the inconvenience caused. This is still something I haven't been able to reproduce, even on my dev box which is about as far from a clean environment as you can get. It just works, every time.
  

  Russell D May 09, 2019 07:24

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  I updated SSMS to 18.3.1 and now the Source Control add-on is not visible anymore... how can I fix this? Thanks!

  Lucian October 22, 2019 07:40

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  You might need to reinstall Source Control after updating SSMS.
  

  Russell D October 22, 2019 07:58

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  Thanks Russell. That worked but it's kind of stupid...

  Lucian October 22, 2019 10:07

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  Unfortunately there is little we can do, its a common problem with plugins in SSMS.
  

  Russell D October 22, 2019 10:13

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