Using MSBuild with SQL Server Analysis Services Projects
I’ve written several blogs and community samples on working with SSAS Projects directly using AMO (instead of SSAS Databases on an Analysis Services server). I was travelling this weekend, and got a chance to create a sample MSBuild task that will generate a .ASDatabase file directly from a Visual Studio project, without requiring Visual Studio itself. This means that multiple developers can work on a project, check-in files via source control, and can schedule an automated build, build on a dedicated “clean” machine (without VS), or any of a number of other scenarios.
I added the custom MSBuild task to the Analysis Services Community Samples project on CodePlex under the SsasHelper sample.
Tags: management, amo