UPDATE 20 Aug 2008: updated SQL 2008 files to 1.3.0.7 to correct an assembly reference issue that breaks the new Variable Window extensions.

Update 26 Aug 2008: update SQL 2005 files to 1.3.0.7 to correct an issue where the SSIS package deployment configuration screen was not appearing.

version: 1.3.0.6 - This is the first release with support SQL Server 2008.

This release contains a version for SQL Server 2005 and one for SQL Server 2008. It also contains a major rework of Expression and Configuration Highlighter to improve performance and along with the following new features:

• Analysis Services
  • Dimension Data Type Discrepancy Check
  • Non-Default Properties Report
  • Printer Friendly Aggregations
  • Similar Aggregations
  • Smart Diff
• Integration Services
  • Deploy SSIS Packages
  • Fix Relative Paths
  • Non-Default Properties Report
  • Reset GUIDs
  • Sort Project Files
  • SSIS Performance Visualization
  • Pipeline Component Performance Breakdown
  • Variables Window Extensions

Support for non-English versions of BIDS
All of the features in BIDS Helper still only display in English in their user interfaces. But in previous versions, some of the features of would not work at all in non-English versions of BIDS because of the way we were integrating into BIDS. This has now been fixed and all of the features of BIDS Helper should work regardless of the language in BIDS.

Finally, there are now 2 download options for each of the versions.

1. a full installer
2. an xcopy deploy (useful where you do not have admin rights)