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Unit 5: Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform

File Menu Notes

The choices on the file menu support file management. When you first open Business Intelligence
Development Studio, but before you have created a new project or opened an existing project,
some choices are unavailable. These choices become available only when you start to work in
the context of a solution, or open a project within a solution.

Edit Menu

The choices on the Edit menu support editing of text and code in documents. This menu supplies
commands such as undo and redo; find and replace; enable and manage bookmarks. When you
first open Business Intelligence Development Studio, before you have created a new project or
opened an existing project, some choices are unavailable. Depending on the project type, some
menu options many not be available.

Example: The Undo and Redo options are not supported in Integration Services projects.

View Menu

The choices on the view menu help you manage the client interface of Business Intelligence
Development Studio. This menu and its submenus supply the choices to open the diverse windows,
toolbox, explorers, and browsers.

Tools Menu

The choices on the Tools menu customize behaviour of the development environment. This
menu, its submenus, and the dialog boxes it accesses provide choices to set the following options:
Select process and a code type for debugging
Connect to a database. The Database Explorer lists the data connections

Work with macros
Select external tools to include in the environment

Import and export specified environment settings or reset environment settings to their
defaults

Choose the toolbars to display in the user interface and arrange the order of commands
Set the options that apply to the overall development environment, solutions and projects,
source control, debugging, and designers and editors

Window Menu

The choices on the Window menu organise the behaviour of windows, explorers, and browsers
in Business Intelligence Development Studio.

Community Menu

The choices on the Community menu lets you ask questions of other users and of technical
support, send response to Microsoft, access groups and connect to the developer centre.

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