Scenario:

                  I have a main window [maximised] which has a set of buttons from which new windows are created. Now the issue is when i open 2 child forms, the first opened window goes behind the main window.

Investigation :

                  If it was a Win forms then this issue could have been solved by setting the IsMdlChild property of the child form to true. But wpf doesnt have the  concept of mdi.

Solution:

Looking through the available properties of a WPF window, i came across “OwnedWindows” property. A search in msdn led me to this description “Gets a collection of windows for which this window is the owner.” and this clue led me to “Window.Owner”

So for each child form i created i just set its owner as the parent form and voila it worked, and guess what it works just like the MDI.. when parent is closed all the children are also closed.

So doing a google on “sql server management studio addin c#” left me with

SQL Server Managment Studio Object Explorer Search Add-In

The initial part of building the addin was based upon this blog by Joseph Cooney, and this article by Ameet Phadnis.

Now to begin with what i had done.

Opened visual studio 2005, Added a new project of the type Visual Studio Add-in located in the Extensibility project type.

Then added to the Registry the following data

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Shell\Addins\SqlServerManagementStudioEx.Connect]
“CommandLineSafe”=dword:00000000
“LoadBehavior”=dword:00000001
“ProductDescription”=”Tag Comment your database objects”
“ProductName”=”SqlServerManagementStudioEx”
“SatelliteDllName”=”SqlServerManagementStudioEx.dll”
“SatelliteDllPath”=”C:\\test addin\\SqlServerManagementStudioEx\\”

Now set take the project properties and in the debug tab. check the

My requirements :
1. Tag database items.
2. Add Comments to database items.
3…. Oh god…. I forgot what i need, Anyway I will add it in my next post.

Now i have to implement this. Have to try addins for SSMS..