BIDS Helper 1.4 Released

Just wanted to let everyone know that a new release came out this week.  Check out the add-in for BIDS out on CodePlex here – BIDS Helper.  The new features include the following (along with a few enhancements):

Release 1.4 contains a number of new features:

• Analysis Services
  • Parent-Child Dimension Naturalizer
  • Test Aggregation Performance
• Integration Services
  • Sortable Package Properties Report
• Reporting Services
  • Dataset Usage Reports
  • Delete Dataset Cache Files

And it contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes:

• Analysis Services
  • Enhancements to Edit Aggregation Dialog
  • improved Printer Friendly Aggs report

Integration Services

• Problem with BIDS 1.3.0.8 (SQL 2005) and VSS
• Smart Diff error – File or project not found
• Expression List doesn’t show all Expressions

As you can see there are a couple of features for Reporting Services now  You can see how datasets are being used and also which ones are not.  Even an option to delete those cached dataset files from within BIDS  SSIS now has a documentation report that you can generate to get some high-level information to for the packages.  I see that there has been one source code change since the release, so if you want to be on the latest and greatest then check out the source code section.