{"id":6348,"date":"2013-11-22T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/introducing-the-red-gate-ssms-ecosystem\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:54:19","slug":"introducing-the-red-gate-ssms-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/introducing-the-red-gate-ssms-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Red Gate SSMS Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-345167ee-804b-db41-331f-d2aac4500211\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/ssmsecosystem\">Red Gate SSMS Ecosystem<\/a> is a framework that makes it easy to develop, share and manage SSMS add-ins. We aim to help add-in developers build everything from homegrown solutions and community-driven projects to commercial solutions provided by partner companies. We hope that DBAs and database developers will benefit from better integrated tools.<\/p>\n<p>Red Gate has lots of experience developing tools that integrate with SSMS. Over time, we&#8217;ve built a collection of common libraries and APIs that make developing SSMS add-ins much simpler. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/ssmsecosystem\/developerresources\">We&#8217;ve made these available free<\/a>, so developers can build their own SSMS add-ins and integrate them with other tools.<\/p>\n<p>The SSMS Ecosystem is a work in progress. Over time, we&#8217;ll be introducing new API features and adding add-ins to our directory. The initial benefit is the ability to integrate your tools with SSMS. In the future, we want to enable add-ins to use more Red Gate technologies and integrate with each other. Eventually, the SSMS Ecosystem will have a distribution platform similar to the Visual Studio Gallery where you can share, discover, and manage add-ins.<\/p>\n<p>Our motivation is partly internal, to help us maintain our product&#8217;s codebase and improve collaboration between Red Gate products. It&#8217;s also partly external, in that our tools are part of a wider story about developing, delivering, and maintaining software. We believe that our tools are more valuable to our users when they&#8217;re flexible and extensible.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to write a add-in for the SSMS Ecosystem, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/documentation.red-gate.com\/display\/MA\/Writing+an+add-in\">developer resources<\/a> page. If you have any problems or the APIs you need aren&#8217;t available, please get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Gate SSMS Ecosystem is a framework that makes it easy to develop, share and manage SSMS add-ins. We aim to help add-in developers build everything from homegrown solutions and community-driven projects to commercial solutions provided by partner companies. We hope that DBAs and database developers will benefit from better integrated tools. Red Gate&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42340,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/42340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}