Business Intel. Dev. Studio loads VS.Net 2005

Hi,
I installed the Business Intelligence Development Studio but when I run it
it is just running my VS.Net 2005. Is this what it is supposed to do? I
want to run some imports/exports and it looked like I needed that installed.
There is no option in SQL Manager Studio to do Imports & Exports. At least
not in the Express CTP version. Does anyone know the EXE name of the file
that is supposed to run when launching the BIDS? The old Enterprise Manager
made importing and exporting a breeze and I'd really like to find where to
do that in SQL Server 2005. Thanks for any help!
Yes, BIDS is just a cut down VS2005 with limited projects avaulable. If you
have the full version of VS2005 installed it will just launch that and you
should see the BI project types in there. BIDS does not have any
import/export functionality, that's in Management Studio (full version not
Express version). Since it relies on SSIS which does not come with Express
then it makes sense it's no there. I'm not sure if this will be added at a
later stage to improve the usefulness of SSMS Express.
HTH,
Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
http://www.sqldbatips.com
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> Hi,
> I installed the Business Intelligence Development Studio but when I run it
> it is just running my VS.Net 2005. Is this what it is supposed to do? I
> want to run some imports/exports and it looked like I needed that
> installed. There is no option in SQL Manager Studio to do Imports &
> Exports. At least not in the Express CTP version. Does anyone know the
> EXE name of the file that is supposed to run when launching the BIDS? The
> old Enterprise Manager made importing and exporting a breeze and I'd
> really like to find where to do that in SQL Server 2005. Thanks for any
> help!
>