Preparing to Use SMO

This section contains information about getting started using SQL Server Management Objects (SMO). The following list will help you to locate information about syntax styles in the documentation, system requirements for programming in SMO, files and version numbers, a description of what's new in SMO, and an installation guide. 

Preparing to Use SMO Syntax Conventions describes the syntax conventions used in this section. System Requirements specifies the system requirements for installing and using SMO. Files and Version Numbers lists the SMO components and corresponding version numbers.

Comparing SMO and SQL-DMO lists how SQL-DMO functionality compares with SMO. Installing SMO provides instructions to install SMO.