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Hi;
The ecosystem project is active - in the sense that the downloads are still available and it's possible to build addins against it - but we wouldn't recommend people start new addins using it, as it not possible for us to support the latest version of Management Studio with the framework.
In the latest preview builds of Management Studio, Microsoft have switched the shell from VS2010 to VS2015, and in the process have disabled the old addin mechanism, meaning all future Management Studio extensibility will be done through .vsix packages, as with Visual Studio. These packages require up-front (build-time) declaration of buttons, commands and menu entries required by extensions, which means that it is no longer possible for the framework to dyamically load plugins and create interfaces for them - which is the main benefit provided by the Ecosystem Project.
Existing addins on will continue to work on SSMS2014 and earlier, and the ecosystem framework will continue to work for that, but for anything newer, you will have to build a .vsix package.
Regards;
Chris / comments
Hi;
The ecosystem project is active - in the sense that the downloads are still available and it's possible to build addins against it - but we wouldn't recommend people start new addins using it, ...
I've had a look at this and I think I've identified the cause of the problem. I should have a fix very soon and will post here when it is available.
Chris / comments
I've had a look at this and I think I've identified the cause of the problem. I should have a fix very soon and will post here when it is available.
Chris
Hi;
Just a quick update on this: we have a fix which we hope to roll out on Monday (18th April), barring any other problems.
Chris / comments
Hi;
Just a quick update on this: we have a fix which we hope to roll out on Monday (18th April), barring any other problems.
Chris