About Add-in Programs

Microsoft® Management Console (MMC) is used by Microsoft SQL Server™ OLAP Services and other server software and services to offer a consistent user interface. OLAP Services provides a snap-in program that operates within MMC and calls the OLAP Add-In Manager, which in turn calls registered add-in programs. The OLAP Manager’s user interface is implemented as an add-in program and is called by the OLAP Add-In Manager in the same way that your custom add-in program will be called.

Your add-in program can add nodes to the structure in the tree view as the user selects or expands a node and can augment node menus with items that will cause your program to be called when those items are selected. The OLAP Manager allows multiple custom add-in programs to be registered and operating at the same time.

Some ideas for custom add-in programs are:

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