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In SSMS 2008, I can bring up the 'Task List' window with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt-K, or by choosing View > Other Windows > Task List. Nice. But what is it for? How do I create Tasks? How do I manage Tasks?
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I have always dismissed this as not usable for SQL files. We tried to use it in some .Net projects but met with problems. You are meant to be able to place comments in your script files to 'bookmark' work to come back to. In TSQL you should be able to type and it should show up in your Task List as a pointer that you ahve something that needs attention in your code. Double clicking the item in the Task List should take you to the point in your code. There are a few default Task categories - TODO, HACK and another that I have forgotten and I think you can create your own. As I say, in .Net projects it sometimes worked sometimes not, I have never seen it work in a SSMS solution. If anyone has had success I'd be very pleased to hear all about it. Jonathan so another example of where MS are trying to force data peeps down the same route as app devs. I never really liked the move from EM to SSMS, and can see how these kind of things just fuel the thirst for 3rd party admin tools. TOAD anyone? :)
Jan 06 '10 at 07:45 PM
Kev Riley ♦♦
TOAD is a bit too warty for me.
Jan 07 '10 at 06:57 AM
Mark Allison
I just have the feeling they didnt want to support EM and VS so got them close enough together to call it useable and then walked away. Getting things like this to work would be a good use in a team environment. I have (dare I admit it?) never tried any other editors ...
Jan 07 '10 at 08:52 AM
Fatherjack ♦♦
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Good question, I wish I knew.
Never saw that one before. Reading up on it, it sounds like it's part of Visual Studio... It's connected to projects somehow, according to the documentation, but I can't seem to get it to work. Interesting.