26 December 2005 08:04
nielsb
New release of SqlClrProject
I thought I better post before this year ends. :-)
Anyway, you may know that I have developed a MSBUILD task dll for deployment
of SQLCLR assemblies. I also created some templates for use from with Visual
Studio 2005, the SQLCLRProject.
I have re-created this as an Add-In for VS, so you now have the ability to
automatically deploy from inside of VS as well as debug! I have also created a
GUI front-end for those who don't use VS which allows deploying of assemblies
using this front-end (setting properties etc). So what exactly does all this
do:
The SqlClrProject is a project type for Visual Studio 2005 for creation and
deployment of assemblies to SQL Server 2005. It consists of templates for both
Visual C# (C#) and Visual Basic (VB) with skeleton code for creation of CLR
methods to be used as stored procedures, User Defined Functions (UDF's),
triggers, User Defined Types (UDT's) and User Defined Aggregates (UDA's). Some
of the features are:
- Ability to deploy the assembly to SQL Server and create the SQL Server
methods, all from inside the Visual Studio IDE.
- Automatic creation of T-SQL deployment scripts.
- Automatic creation of T-SQL DML scripts for testing of the created objects.
- Ability to alter an assembly and only deploy newly added methods from the
assembly.
- Ability to create objects in a non default schema "schemaname.objectname".
- Debug facilities from inside VS.
For you who have used the SQL Server Project project type from VS to do
this, you may wonder what the differences are. Things that the SqlClrProject
allows you to do, which the VS SQL Server project can't do:
- Automatic creation of T-SQL deployment scripts.
- Automatic creation of T-SQL DML scripts for testing of the created objects.
- Ability to alter an assembly and only deploy newly added methods from the
assembly.
- Ability to create objects in a non default schema "schemaname.objectname".
Anyway, if you are interested you can download all needed from here:
[0].
Un-zip the file and read the README.txt file in the root directory.
Comments are as usual very welcome!!!
Finally I wish you all a very Happy New Year!!!
[0]: http://staff.develop.com/nielsb/code/DeployPropAndAddIn.zip