Applies to
ApexSQL add-ins
Symptoms
SSMS 18 is no longer in preview mode and is the first General Availability (GA) version of SSMS 18 is out aka
- “ApexSQL add-ins not working on SSMS 18 GA release”
- “ApexSQL add-ins stopped working on SSMS 18 GA release”
- “ApexSQL add no longer work on SSMS 18 GA release”
Version Information:
- Release number: 18.0 (GA)
- Build number: 15.0.18118.0
- Release date: April 24, 2019
Problem
With the latest generation of SQL Server Management Studio, when an ApexSQL add-in installation is ran the pop-up message is shown that selected version is not installed like shown in the figure below:
However, this is not the case because SSMS 18 is installed on a machine:
Solution
Below is the list of add-in products in which this issue has been fixed:
- ApexSQL Complete 2018 R10
- ApexSQL Refactor 2018 R7
- ApexSQL Search 2018 R8
- ApexSQL Source Control 2018 R12
- ApexSQL Unit Test 2018 R4
Stand-alone products with add-in integration will have SSMS 18 GA support in May:
- ApexSQL Compare 2018 R4
- ApexSQL Data Diff 2018 R7
- ApexSQL Decrypt 2018 R2
- ApexSQL Diff 2018 R5
- ApexSQL Doc 2018 R5
- ApexSQL Enforce 2018 R6
- ApexSQL Generate 2018 R4
- ApexSQL Model 2018 R4
- ApexSQL Plan 2018 R8
