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devvcat / ssms-executor

Execute current statement extension for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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Installing without the installer. #17

Closed manngo closed 1 year ago

manngo commented 2 years ago

I do a lot of teaching on SSMS, so thank you so much for this extension.

Much of the teaching is remote, and in many cases the participants are on company machines which won’t allows downloading and running executables.

I know there is an accompanying ZIP file, and the idea is to extract it and copy to the Extensions folder. However, after I install using the installer, the Extensions folder only has a single SSMSExecutor folder with only two files extension.vsixmanifest and SSMSExecutor.pkgdef.

What happens with the other files?

devvcat commented 2 years ago

Hi @manngo, the file SSMSExecutor.pkgdef defines the location for the other files. Open it in notepad and check the field "CodeBase"="<path>\SSMSExecutor.dll".

The ZIP file, has it configured to look in the 'package' folder (the folder that has the extension). "CodeBase"="$PackageFolder$\SSMSExecutor.dll"

Glad that the extension is useful for you.

manngo commented 2 years ago

Thanks. So, if I understand correctly, all of the files are indeed installed, but not necessarily in the same place. The SSMSExecutor.pkgdef file indicates. where.