I recently installed SSMS 2014 and SP1 on my Windows 7 Pro x64 system. I used both 2005 and 2012 prior to this installation.
I cannot figure out why Solution Explorer is not working in the new version. In prior versions, I was able to create Solutions/Projects to organize my script files. However, I cannot do the same thing in 2014. I have tried several times to create a new solution and add a script project and even a couple scripts. However, each time I created a solution and added a project, I had to add an additional project before any of it would show in Solution Explorer. After adding a second project to the solution then both projects suddenly were visible in SE. I deleted the extra project and went about adding a connection and a couple query files. These objects were visible in SE for a few sessions but if I closed a query file, the next session would yield an empty Solution Explorer and I cannot do anything about it. With SSMS closed, I opened the project and solution files in a text editor and everything looks okay (I'm no expert on these files).
I went to a Microsoft site today and found a note that indicated that future versions of SSMS will not include Solution Explorer and to avoid using it now. If I cannot easily see my files in Solution Explorer, how does that help customers to find their project files in SSMS?
Anybody else run across this issue?
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