SSMS Object Explorer Menu is a free and open source extension for SQL Server Management Studio 19.1 written in C#. It allows custom menu items to be added to the right-click context menu in the Object Explorer window. The menu items can be used to execute any tsql script file or inline tsql statement.
The project homepage is https://sqlmedic.com.
Source code, documentation and issues can be found at https://github.com/brink-daniel/ssms-object-explorer-menu.
Information on how to access the Object Explorer and TreeView control was learnt by studying Nicholas Ross's SSMS-Schema-Folders project.
This extension has only been tested and used with SQL Server Management Studio 19.1.
You can download the latest version of SSMS for free from Microsoft.
This extension has not been tested alongside any other extensions.
Download the source code and replace the lib/SqlPackageBase.dll and lib/SqlWorkbench.Interfaces.dll with your local version of the same files found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE. Then recompile the extension and follow the installation instructions below.
You must unblock the zip file before extracting it. Right click on the zip file in Windows Explorer and select Properties.
If you see an Unblock button or checkbox then click it.
Extract the zip file and copy the SSMSObjectExplorerMenu folder into the SSMS extension folder. Remove or replace any previous version.
The default install location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 19\Common7\IDE\Extensions
Please note that SSMS 19 does allow installing extensions in a different location. You may need to search around for the Extensions folder.
Up to 20 menu items can be configured via the Options dialog window in SSMS
Tools > Options > SQL Server Object Explorer > SQLMedic
- Context - Set the tree node level where to display the menu item.
- Enabled - Show/hide the menu item.
- Execute - Automatically run the selected script or tsql statements.
- Name - Text displayed on the menu item.
- Path - Location of script file to execute OR tsql statements to execute.
The following tags are replaced in tsql scripts and statements before execution:
{SERVER}{DATABASE}{SCHEMA}{TABLE}{STORED_PROCEDURE}
| Context | Script | Description |
|---|---|---|
| All | text_substitution_demo.sql | Demo of text substitution |
| Server_Database_Table | script_data_as_insert.sql | Script data as insert statements |
| Server_Database_StoredProcedure | stored_procedure_unit_test.sql | Run tSQLt unit test for a stored procedure |
| Server_Database_StoredProceduresFolder | stored_procedure_unit_test_all.sql | Run all tSQLt unit tests |
This happens when Windows security blocks dll files downloaded from the internet. Unblock the zip file BEFORE extracting it.
Please report any issues to https://github.com/brink-daniel/ssms-object-explorer-menu/issues.
Requirements for compiling the source code:
- Visual Studio 2022
- Toolset: Visual Studio extension development
The Visual Studio extension development can be installed via the Tools > Get Tools and Features menu inside Visual Studio.
- Optimize logic for retrieving tree node context information
- Public beta release.
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