Hello,

I've just noticed that SqlAssistSSMS2005Setup.msi doesn't add anything to the Start->Programs menu items?

I can't find SqlAssist anywhere in the menu.

Please help.

Hello,

Thank you very much for answering. Yes, I'm running SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Express Edition.

- Sorry to have bothered you, could you please write explicitly in the Download page that

that SqlAssist is not available  for SSMSEE? Thank you very much. The Dowload page is this:

http://www.roundpolygons.com/SqlAssist/Download/tabid/94/Default.aspx

- I think there has to be a means to simulate Intellisense in the Express Edition as well.

The Red Gate "SQL Prompt" product does that successfully for the Express Edition.

I don't know their implementation details of course. Maybe some kind of Win32 hooks would help controlling the SSMSEE code editing window.

Once a DLL hook is loaded in the SSMSEE process address space, then the content of the SSMSEE code editing window could maybe be read and modified ?

True, but I'm not sure that they are technically out of compliance with Microsoft's license agreement.  Their "plugin" is actually a stand-alone application that injects its intellisense using Windows Hooks... it does not use the Visual Studio Addin interface that is available in the Visual Studio codebase (which is what SSMS and SSMSEE are built on).  So I don't believe that Microsoft can really ding them for that implementation. 

I chose to implement SqlAssist using that Visual Studio Addin interface, so I am definitely restricted from supporting SSMSEE.

~Steve