How to create MS SQL Maintenance Plan Programmatically?

Here's one option - create your SSIS generic maintenance package for all your servers manually and use a config file for it then deploy to each of your SQL servers/computers

SSIS Package Configurations: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141682.aspx

How to: Deploy a Package: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140117.aspx

Seems like good idea, will try that.
Do you think it will work when deployed again to different SQL Server?

Or is it possible to create maintenance plans programmatically by using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance namespace or am I wrong?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.management.databasemaintenance(SQL.100).aspx

Thanks

Seems the namespace is working, successfully created Empty Maintenance Plan.

private void btnCreatePackage_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Create server Connection Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common;
            ServerConnection conn = new ServerConnection("SQLServerName");
           
            // Create maintenance plan object with connection
            MaintenancePlan myMaintenance = new MaintenancePlan(conn);
            // Setup Maintenance plan properties                        
            myMaintenance.Description = "Backups";
            myMaintenance.Name = "SDOMOM BackupAllUsersDBs_Test";
            myMaintenance.BasePackage.Configurations.Add();
           
            /*
            //Create backup task
            DbMaintenanceBackupTask bckFull = new DbMaintenanceBackupTask();
            bckFull.BackupAction = Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.BackupActionType.Database;
            bckFull.BackupCompressionOption = Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.BackupCompressionOptions.Default;
            bckFull.BackupIsIncremental = false;
            bckFull.BackupDeviceType = Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.DeviceType.File;
            bckFull.BackupFileExtension = "bak";
            bckFull.DatabaseSelectionType = DatabaseSelection.User;
            bckFull.DestinationAutoFolderPath = @"C:\Temp\";
            bckFull.IgnoreDatabasesInNotOnlineState = true;
            bckFull.InDays = true;
            bckFull.DestinationCreationType = DestinationType.Auto;
            bckFull.ExistingBackupsAction = ActionForExistingBackups.Append;
            bckFull.LocalConnectionForLogging = "Local server connection";
            bckFull.TaskName = "Back Up Database (Full)";
            bckFull.CanUpdate("Back Up Database (Full)");
           
           
             */
            // Save Maintenance Plan
            myMaintenance.Save();
       }

Now I'm trying to create Backup Task, (should be subplan or sequence first, probably).

"Do you think it will work when deployed again to different SQL Server? " - they must work 100% if designed/built to read the connection and other server/database speciffic parameters from config files that will be unique for each server.

I will try both ways because it seems that Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance is quite new, and not well documented. Actually I was able to easily create maintenance plan with c# but couldn't create db backup tasks. :-(

It was solved exactly how I've expected.
It is completely meets our needs.