SSMS How to prevent Save File Dialog from opening each time i run an external tool

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I have external tools that i execute from SSMS. Each Time i run a tool SSMS prompts for a Save File Dialog. I dont want it to display ...

Posted 17-May-12 21:59pm

debdeep Bhattacharyya

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Wendelius 18-May-12 16:18pm

What is the tool you're using? Probably the problem is with the tool, not with SSMS

Sandeep Mewara 24-May-12 15:33pm

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Am using a simple exe .. you can repro it with notepad.exe .. add it as external tool, then open a new query .. type somethin .. then try to open the external tool ..

Wendelius 24-May-12 15:54pm

Thanks Sandeep :)

Sandeep Mewara 25-May-12 0:52am

Welcome.

BTW, please have a look at the new tip I wrote last week and share your comments: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/384425/Server-side-Delimiters-in-ASP-NET

:)

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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2012-05-24T09:54:00

If I add notepad as an external tool, SSMS doesn't ask anything when I launch the notepad via SSMS. So I suspect that the save file dialog is coming from your tool.

SSMS doesn't control the tool and isn't able to prevent the tool from asking if you want to save the changes (unless this can be defined as a startup parameter for the tool). SSMS only launches the executable and the rest is done in the code of the tool you use.

This could also happen if your tool modifies a file which is opened in SSMS. By default SSMS detects these changes. This behavior can be controlled via Options.

debdeep Bhattacharyya · Answer 2 · 2012-05-30T16:02:00

Solution 3

I have created an Add-In using VS2010 and called my external tool from it :D

Posted 30-May-12 16:02pm