Options (Text Editor - File Extension Page)

Use the Options dialog box to specify how all files with certain file extensions are handled by SQL Server Management Studio. For each extension that you enter, you can select an editor. Thus, you can choose the SQL Server Management Studio editor in which documents of a certain type will open. To open the file extension options, click Options on the Tools menu, expand Text Editor, and then click File Extension.

When you select, from the Editor drop-down list, an option "with Encoding", a dialog box appears whenever you open a document of that type that allows you to select an encoding scheme for that document. This can be helpful if you are preparing versions of your scripts for use on a different operating system or in different target languages.

Options

Extension
Type a file extension.

Editor
Select the SQL Server Management Studio editor that you want to use to open documents with the file extension you entered in the Extension box. When you select an option "with Encoding," a dialog box appears whenever you open such a document that allows you to select an encoding scheme.

Add
Add an entry that includes the specified Extension and Editing experience values to ExtensionList.

Remove
Delete the selected entry from Extension List.

Extension
Lists all extensions for which an editor has been specified.

Editing Experience
Lists the editors selected for Extensions.

Map extensionless files to
Specify how files without extensions are to be handled by SQL Server Management Studio.

Extensionless file editor
This drop-down list at the bottom of the page provides the same list as the Editing Experience option. Select the SQL Server Management Studio editor or designer in which documents without file extensions will open.