The exe downloads are a self extracting installer, the zip downloads allow for anxcopy deploy which does not require administrator permissions. Make sure to note the updated xcopy deploy instructions for SQL Server 2012 and 2014.
This BIDS Helper release is marked as a beta release due to major Biml improvements and updates. The new Biml functionality has gone through a rigorous private beta and we are ready for everyone to begin using it. Special thanks go to Stefan Gustafsson and others for an excellent job beta testing. Biml is now up-to-date with Mist 4.0 and now properly supports emitting SSIS 2014 packages inSSDTBI for Visual Studio 2013. There is also a newBiml FAQ.
Fixed Issues:
Improvements
- BIDS Helper 2014 is for SQL 2014 and Visual Studio 2013.
- BIDS Helper 2012 is for SQL 2012, Visual Studio 2010, and Visual Studio 2012.
- BIDS Helper 2008 is for SQL 2008, SQL 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2008.
- BIDS Helper 2005 is for SQL 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
This BIDS Helper release is marked as a beta release due to major Biml improvements and updates. The new Biml functionality has gone through a rigorous private beta and we are ready for everyone to begin using it. Special thanks go to Stefan Gustafsson and others for an excellent job beta testing. Biml is now up-to-date with Mist 4.0 and now properly supports emitting SSIS 2014 packages inSSDTBI for Visual Studio 2013. There is also a newBiml FAQ.
Fixed Issues:
- Fixes to all features so they work when the project is inside a solution folder.
- Fixed Biml project connections in Visual Studio 2013.
- Reports launch in the proper version of the Report Viewer control in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.
Improvements
- Biml updates to bring it up-to-date with Mist 4.0
- Biml updates to support emitting SSIS 2014 packages from Visual Studio 2013.
- Biml brings the Output window to the front, displays a progress bar, and displays a more useful errors dialog
- Enabling the ability to add a translation for the default language in Tabular Translations Editor to make frictionless renaming easier.
- Improvements to
Tabular Actions Editor:
- Adding button to test all MDX expressions
- ensuring the drillthrough column dropdowns only show columns from related tables
- Adding a button to let you copy an existing action
- Adding a button to populate the drillthrough action columns with all columns in related tables (since it's quicker to manually delete than manually add columns from this list)
- Allowing MeasureGroupMeasures to apply to any action type
- Printer Friendly Dimension Usage for Tabular