Any idea when a beta release will be available for the SSMS 18 previews? I've been using SSMS 18 for a while now and it has been fairly stable. It includes the long awaited Dark Theme and I've been sacrificing SSMSBoost functionality to use it 😢

Thanks!

Francis
SQLRanger.com

Hello Francis,
We usually wait until at least release candidate, before starting to add the support.
The reason is that Microsoft often reserves the right to do breaking changes in the last moment and sometimes we had to start re-implementation of already implemented support.
Reading the changelog of SSMS 2018 I already see that they are moving in the right direction, but it also means for us some 2-4 weeks of work to add the support.
So: certainly we will be adding the support, but currently we wait until SSMS 18.x gets to final pre-release state.

We have Implemented support for current v 18.4 (Preview) and will publish beta version until 1-st of December. As expected, there were many issues with compatibility, but we believe to have found and fixed all of them.

That's great! Where can I find the beta to download?

Any word on SSMS 18 availability?

We will make the release this week. We have already prepared the website over the weekend and are making last tests. SSMS 18 will be supported.

Is this still due to release this week?

Any news on this release?

SSMSBoost v3.5 was released today:
-Supports latest SSMS releases: SSMS 17.9 and SSMS 18.0 Preview 6
-NEW feature "Select current statement" command. Default shortcut: Shift+F5
-COLUMN/VALUE pairs are now highlighted in INSERT .. SELECT statement.
(Previously feature worked only in INSERT .. VALUES statement)
-"Highlight repetitions" feature can now be configured to work case-sensitive and uses
customizable regex pattern to look for repetitions of the selection
-Safety: "No" is now default action button in "Fatal actions guard" confirmation dialogs
-Wildcards can now be used to define tables, ignored by "Fatal actions guard"
-Added "Show only frozen" filter to "Open recent.." dialogs
-Added "Restore connection" control option to "Open recent tab" dialog
-DataGrid returns max 10MB of data in a single cell which affects "Visualize" functionality.
SSMSBoost will now show warning message if this situation occurs and data was truncated
-Preferred connections can now be tested directly from Settings dialog
-Added display of "NULLs count" and "Count" for binary columns in "Aggregates" dialog
-Floating info tooltips have now "copy to clipboard button"

Much thanks. I have somehow corrupted my SSMS 17 install and have been using SSMS 18 without SSMSBoost, sure did miss it. Thanks again.