Managing Projects in SSMS

Project management capabilities like those available in Visual Studio are available in SSMS. Queries, connections, and other files that are related can be grouped into projects. A project or set of projects is further organized or grouped as a solution. This type of organization is the same as in the Visual Studio environment.

Projects and solutions are maintained and displayed with the Solution Explorer. The Solution Explorer contains a tree-like structure that organizes the projects and files in the solution. It is a component window within SSMS that you launch by selecting View, Solution Explorer. Figure 4.23 shows an example of the Solution Explorer. The solution in this example is named EmployeeUpgrade, and it contains ...

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