Can I use Visual Studio Code to create/publish SSIS packages?
If so, what are the benefits of using Visual Studio Professional (instead of the free Visual Studio Code product)?
The comparison on the Visual Studio site doesn't provide much help: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Also, I cannot use Visual Studio Community edition due to its limited licensing for use at companies.
No, you cannot use Visual Studio Code to create SSIS packages, but you also do not need Visual Studio Professional. You can use SQL Server Data Tools, which you can install during your Visual Studio installation or install with the stand-alone installer.
If you are only doing T-SQL and SSIS development, then you probably don't need Visual Studio Professional. I don't think there is anything SSDT is missing regarding SSIS development. Saying that, I currently use Professional, but I used to use just SSDT, and I never ran into any limitations concerning SSIS development.
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Is it possible to open a SSIS solution using Microsoft's free tools (Visual Studio Team Explorer and SQL Server Data Tools) or does it require a full installation of Visual Studio?
I am trying to do so with just the free tools and am getting an error saying that "this versino of Visual Studio is unable to open the following projects" then another one saying the solution I have opened is under source control but not currently configured for integrated source control in visual studio.
We have other users who use the full version of Visual Studio 2017 and it works fine so I am wondering if this is just a limitation of the free products offered by Microsoft.
To edit SQL Server 2005 SSIS packages, you need Visual Studio 2005 and installation of Business Intelligence Designer Studio, BIDS. This required a license, developer edition was sufficient, to access the tooling.
SQL Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 R2 would install into Visual Studio 2008. This too required a SQL Server license as the media only existed on the server media.
SQL Server 2012 would install into both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012. This was delivered in both physical media installations and downloadable tooling which was rebranded to SQL Server Data Tools- BI Edition, now just SQL Server Data Tools and the components were just licensed via click through agreement.
SQL Server 2014 installs into Visual Studio 2013 and was now only available through the download of SSDT.
SQL Server 2016 added a new twist into the mix. It installed into Visual Studio 2015 but it could now create/edit/target SQL Server 2012, 2014 and 2016 packages. This was huge as until this point, as a consultant I would have required 5 different versions of the "same" program on my machine. Now I'd only need 3.
SQL Server 2017 installs SSDT in both Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017.
I assume SQL Server 2019 will similarly target VS 2017 and VS 109.
Across all of these versions, if you didn't have Visual Studio installed, the installer would install the Visual Studio shell on your machine so that the project templates would work.
Last I knew, neither Visual Studio Community Edition nor VS Code will work with the SSDT templates so be sure and open the correct product to work with SSIS projects (.dtproj)
The warning/error about "under source control but not currently configured" smells like something is awry with how you have the TFS hook installed but I can't comment on that.
Download and install SSDT 2017 for Visual Studio
You can verify the status of your SSDT installation for Visual Studio by going to the Help, About Microsoft Visual Studio menu and looking for "SQL Server Integration Services." With ... 2017? you can now do a piecemeal install and only pick SQL Server Data Tools (database projects) or SSAS/SSIS/SSRS. Previously, the SSDT-BI install was trio of SS_S and SSDT (no BI) was the database projects.
Previous answer on where SSDT-BI is
You have at lease two options:
Use Visual Studio Community Edition together with SSDT. Still, you have to check its License terms with your Legal department - it might be not legal to use Community Edition in Enterprise.
Use Visual Studio Isolated Shell together with SSDT. More instructions on how to install it. As far as I know, it is legal to use it for debugging.
The VS Isolated Shell is usually installed with SQL Server 2014/16.
I've downloaded a shell version of Visual Studio 2012/SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) which allows me to create Analysis Services Tabular Models but because it is a shell (integrated) version it only allows for a small amount of functionality.
I have a full professional edition of visual studio 2010 and have installed SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) but there is no business intelligence project templates available.
Will I need to purchase visual studio 2012 to get this full functionality or is there a way I can do it within the visual studio 2010 environment?
The SQL Server is 2012
Per MSDN:
You can install SQL Server Data Tools on Visual Studio 2010
Professional, Premium, or Ultimate Edition with Visual Studio 2010
SP1.
You can find the link to download Visual Studio 2010 SP1 on the MSDN page (I don't like linking directly to downloads on SO since people can edit the links.)
Also, according to this other MSDN site,
Projects and DACPACs are fully compatible across shells.
Please download the toolset for VS2012 ...
Again, a link to SSDT 2012 is on the site. You might want to uninstall your integrated shell version just to get a clean binding with your existing VS2010 install.
UPDATE
Please also read James Serra's blog about the BI templates for Visual STudio 2012 coming in a separate install from SSDT, which also includes a link to that install.
In my system when I click on Add->new project->And go to Other project types I cant see any project types. I actually wanted to convert my c# project to executable.
Is any component missing during installation? I am using Visual studio 2008 professional edition
Please help me..
I had the same issue until I looked into what software I was ACTUALLY using - check to see if you're really using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - I thought I was until I realized I was using Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) which is different.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) is part of the SQL Server 2008 Management Studio, so the project types available to it are different than MSVS 2008... Microsoft developed the Shell to have the same look and feel of Visual Studio so users were comfortable and familiar with the layout.
Go to Tools>>Import and Export Settings>>Reset all settings>>Choose yes or no to save current settings>>
Then choose Visual C# Development Settings or General Development Settings.
So that you can have templates you need.
You can reopen your VisualStudio ISO and try to repair or you can install VisualStudio Express to make sure you can install all templates.
My guess is you didn't make a full installation and forgot to install some components.
I know that VS 2010 can target specific .NET Framework editions, but specifically...
Can I use VS2010 to support SSIS packages that need to be saved in 2005 format?
How about VS2008?
I am trying to determine which edition I need get a license for. I am hoping I can do everything in 2010.
I do not believe that Visual Studio 2010 is supported by SSIS yet (even with SQL 2008 R2 I use VS 2008). However, if you have SSIS it should come with Visual Studio 2008. It is called the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and it installs with SSIS.
As for targeting an older SSIS project, I believe 2008 will target 2005. You just need to install the SSIS management studio and you will have it.
Edit: To be clear, BIDS 2008 will not be able to modify 2005 packages (I believe you can run them though). You will need to install just BIDS (not the entire Visual Studio) for each version you want to modify. Here is a link with more explanations:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-ZA/sqlintegrationservices/thread/4fe1b042-3f8d-473d-b9fe-2c4adeb67bcd
As for licensing specifically, you will need a developer license for SSIS at the version level you are trying to edit. Therefore, if you are editing SSIS 2005 packages, you will need a 2005 SSIS developer license. See more details here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlintegrationservices/thread/0b2754aa-716e-4f81-85c0-3b6dcdc34bb3/
Some visual studio plugin only support Developer Edition. While I only have Database Edition installed.
I bet I am able to install both. But i have no clue is that means I have two different instances of Visual Studio?
According to this question your machine will just have one instance of Visual Studio, but it will have the features of both editions (Developer and Database) you installed.