From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:   
   >      I am using SQL Express 2008 and working through the tutorials. So   
   > far, I have been able to do everything although occasionally, the   
   > system and the tutorial do not quite match.  I am stumped now though.   
   >   
   > "Using Script Projects and Solutions   
   >   
   > To create a script project and solution   
   >   
   > 1. Open Management Studio, and connect to a server with Object   
   > Explorer.   
   >   
   > 2. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project. The New   
   > Project dialog box opens."   
   >   
   >      I have tried many times.  File -- New gives choices of   
   >           Query with Current Connection   
   >           Database Engine Query   
   >           SQL Server Compact Query   
   >           Policy   
   > There is no choice "Project".   
   >   
   >      What am I missing, please?   
   >   
   >      I did find a doc note that a solution must be open for the   
   > Project choice to be available, but I can not see how to open a   
   > solution either, and the tutorial mentions nothing about solutions. (I   
   > also do not know what is meant by a solution in this context.)   
      
   In Visual Studio they have solutions, but I have never understood what   
   problem they solve. It seems that "solution" might be a utterly strange   
   word for "workspace", but if there is anything in this world that makes me   
   confused it's Visual Studio, at least versions after VS6.   
      
   And SQL Server Management Studio is built on the same shell as VS, which may   
   explain some of these funny things.   
      
   Now for the good news: you don't have to use projects or "solutions" to use   
   SSMS. I have never used them myself, and understand about as little as you   
   do of them.   
      
   I should add that when I look in the New menu on my instance of SSMS, I do   
   see "Project". I guess that you are using SSMS Express, and this particular   
   feature may be missing from SSMS Express.   
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Links for SQL Server Books Online:   
   SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx   
   SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx   
   SQL 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx   
      
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