Expose NuGet package Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlToolsService about sqltoolsservice

[jzabroski]

@kevcunnane Awesome! Thank you so much. If it becomes available I'd help write some docs on how to use it. I often find having someone new write how-to docs, and then having the experts review it, gives the best results. It produces docs written in plain terms, but then the experts can add nuances/color as they see fit.

[kevcunnane]

We don't currently publish any from this repository, but I plan to change that in order to enable reuse of the hosting service in the future. I don't have any dates for this but will let you know. As part of this work, it'd be feasible to create a nuget for other features too so will see if I can fit this in.

[jmezach]

I have a need for having this available as a NuGet package in order to fix rr-wfm/MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj#23. Specifically I'm looking at the BatchParser stuff. Currently I'm using reflection with the public DacFx model, but it doesn't work on Linux because it is uppercasing the entire path. Since it is all internal I can't implement parts of it myself. But it looks like the BatchParser here might help me solve that issue.

[Charles-Gagnon]

@jmezach If you just need BatchParser and not any of the specific SqlToolsService stuff - then https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlManagementObjects/ is available to use. (This is the package that SqlToolsService consumes for all the SMO/parsing logic)

[jmezach]

Well, I would like to use the Parser class to parse a script so that I can collect the referenced includes from there by implementing the [ICommandHandler[(https://github.com/microsoft/sqltoolsservice/blob/main/src/Microsoft.SqlTools.ManagedBatchParser/BatchParser/ICommandHandler.cs) interface.

[Charles-Gagnon]

Ah - unfortunately there aren't any current plans to go forward with publishing an official package for this but this is under an MIT license so you're free to copy and modify the source as long as you include that license in your project.