Customize SQL Server Management Studio (or Express)?

Is there any way to customize the SSMS or Express? SSMS seems to have the same codebase as Visual Studio, so would the Visual Studio SDK work?

Curtis

I recently answered this question in another post:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1530544&SiteID=1

Long story short: we don't support or recommend 3rd party extensions to Management Studio. We do use the Visual Studio shell, so you might technically be able to add menu items, but we are free to change our extensions in SPs and major releases and this could break your extensions.

Paul A. Mestemaker II

Program Manager

Microsoft SQL Server Manageability

http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlrem/