Add New Project

Use this dialog box to create a new project in either the current solution or a new solution. You can access this dialog box by clicking Add on the File menu and then clicking New Project. This dialog box is only available when a solution is open. This dialog box adds the new project to the open solution. This dialog box contains selection buttons in the upper right corner for displaying the templates with large or small icons.

Note

For general background on solutions and projects, see Introduction to Solutions, Projects, and Items and Solutions as Containers.

Options

• Templates
  In the Templates box, select a template. A brief description of the selected project template appears beneath the Templates box.

• Name
  Enter the name of the script project you want to create. A folder with the same name as the project is also created in the location displayed in the Location field. For some projects, SQL Server Management Studio creates source and other supporting files and adds them to the new project folder.

  Note

  For some project types, the Name text box is unavailable because specifying the location sets the name. For example, Web applications and Web services are located on a Web server and derive their name from the virtual directory specified on that server.

  Names cannot contain the following characters:

  • Pound (#)

  • Percent (%)

  • Ampersand (&)

  • Asterisk (*)

  • Vertical bar (|)

  • Backslash (\)

  • Colon (:)

  • Quotation mark (")

  • Less than (<)

  • Greater than (>)

  • Question mark (?)

  • Forward slash (/)

  • Leading or trailing spaces (' ')

  • Names reserved for Microsoft Windows or MS-DOS, such as ("nul", "aux", "con", "com1", "lpt1", and so on)

• Location
  Enter the location where you want to create your project, or choose one from the list.

• Browse
  Displays the Project Location dialog box, which allows you to navigate to a new directory to save the project in.