SSMS Extensions

Posted by John Liu on Friday, March 17, 2023

With SSMS 19, when trying to install Poor Mans TSQL Formatter SSMS extension, it doesn’t appear working after install. This is due to the install didn’t create/copy the package file onto folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 19\Extensions\Extensions.

To make it work, manually copy the PoorMansTSqlFormatterSSMSPackage.pkgdef from the Extension folder for SSMS 18 and past into the Extension folder for SSMS 19. You may need to create the Extension folder if it doesn’t exist. This method might also fix any other extensions for SSMS.