BIDS Helper - A must have for BI developers

BIDS Helper is a set of Visual Studio.Net add-ins that extend and enhance the functionality of the SQL Server BI Development Studio. The current release (1.1.0.1) containts the following add-ins:

• Aggregation Manager
• Calculation Helpers
• Deploy MDX Script
• Dimension Health Check
• Printer Friendly Dimension Usage
• Show Extra Properties
• Update Estimated Counts
• Visualize Attribute Lattice

I really like the "Deploy MDX Script" add-in. This feature allows you to right click on a cube in an Analysis Services solution and deploy just the calculation script. This comes in very handing while debugging and testing MDX calculations in offline mode.




It's a open source and available as a free download on CodePlex. Toeltje van de week!!!