Create a New Extensions Solution

This is applicable to the SDK for Blackbaud CRM versions 2.93 and higher.

The SSIS packages project template can only be used with Microsoft's Business Intelligence Development Studio. The project templates for revisions extensions and OLAP extensions are accessible with Visual Studio 2010. Business Intelligence Development Studio is an enhancement of Visual Studio 2008. You can install Business Intelligence Development Studio alongside Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft explains here: Introducing Business Intelligence Development Studio.

This process creates a solution that contains three projects, one for each type of extension (database revisions, SSIS packages, and OLAP). But only two of the projects are visible from Visual Studio 2010. The SSIS project is visible from Business Intelligence Development Studio. You can open the solution in Visual Studio 2010 but not from Business Intelligence Development Studio.

1. Ensure that the most recent version of the SDK is installed. For more information about how to install the SDK, see Blackbaud Infinity SDK Downloads.

2. From Visual Studio 2010, click File > New > Project. The New Project screen appears.

   

3. Under Installed Templates, browse to Visual Basic > Blackbaud AppFx.

   

4. Select OLAP Solution and specify solution information such as a name and location.

5. Click OK. The wizard creates and opens the solution.

   If you can't see the solution, click View > Solution Explorer.

   The new solution looks like this in Visual Studio 2010:

   

   From this solution, you can manage revisions extensions and OLAP extensions from the Revisions and UDM projects respectively.