Have the different express edition integrate in one IDE

Have the different express edition integrate in one IDE

• Prabhu000

  They don't integrate together because they are free tools, and they have some limitations by design. If you want them integrated, then you could purchase the professional versions of the products.

  The IDE that SQLServer installs is actually BIDS - Business Intelligence Development Studio, not the VS IDE, although in the professional versions the VS stuff can be accessed and used from BIDS.

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• Nosam Neb

  Your other post has a reply so I merged it with this. That is why your petition post appears twice.

  I think your idea would be really nice but I also see why it will probably not happen. By reading blogs I learned that the express editions are delivered by the different teams. Also, one of the ideas is to keep the size down for each individual download.

  As the express editions are aimed at beginners and hobbyist I do not think it would gain them. They want to develop, knows or want to learn a single programming language and go for it with whatever express edition suites them. More programming languages will not make them more productive.

  I am a professional developer I wouldn't buy a single express edition for $49 (when they still had a monetary value), but I would probably buy a visual studio lite version for $49. Now I have all installed because like to play around and it helps me to help here.

   

  
  
  

• JStorm

  Hi!
  
  Last night, I installed the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit (the one that accompanies SQL2005 SP1). When looking at what I got, found a nice surprise: Visual Studio 2005 WAS installed in my system! Of course, it only has the Reporting Services installed on it, but it was a nice touch anyway.
  
  The thing is, I already have VB 2005 Express, VC# 2005 Express, VWD 2005 Express... all of them with their own IDEs installed on it's own folder space, and I was wondering, hey, if they installed the Visual Studio 2005 IDE on my system just because of Reporting Services, well, wouldn't be nice to integrate all the other Express dev tools to be accessible through this very same IDE Would that be even possible
  
  That is, in summary, my petition. Could you, in future actualizations of the Express editions, include something that "integrate" previously installed Express dev tools into the IDE that the SQL Server Toolkit is already installing anyway Or, even better, could future downloads of the Express editions detect and/or install the Visual Studio 2005 IDE on their own That would be a VERY, VERY, VERY nice touch to an already excellent package of software development tools like the Visual Studio Express editions.
  
  Thanks in advance for your consideration on this!
  
  - Izhido
  
  (PS: I posted this message on the SQL Server 2005 Reporing services forum, by mistake. My apologies for the duplicate post.)
  
  

• Enrique0210

  I'm sure it's POSSIBLE for the express editions to detect each other and integrate; but that isn't in the spirit of the express editions. They are targeted toward hobbyists/students who want to learn Dotnet programming. If you want an environment that integrates all of the tools, VS Standard and above does all of that.

  
  
  

• Mix from Latvia

  Awww... partypooper
  
  Still, I think it would be nice to have it. Who's with me
  
  - Izhido
  
  
• Have the different express edition integrate in one IDE