Learn to build custom SSIS tasks using Visual Studio Community Edition
and Visual Basic. Bring all the power of Microsoft .NET to bear on your
data integration and ETL processes, and for no added cost over what
you've already spent on licensing SQL Server. If you already have a
license for SQL Server, then you do not need to spend more money to
extend SSIS with custom tasks and components.
Why are custom components necessary? Because even though the SSIS
catalog of built-in tasks and components is a marvel of engineering,
there do remain gaps in the functionality that is provided. These gaps
are especially relevant to enterprises practicing Data Integration
Lifecycle Management (DILMS) and/or DevOps.
One of the gaps is a limitation of the SSIS Execute Package task.
Developers using the stock version of that task are unable to select
SSIS packages from other projects. Yet it's useful to be able to select
and execute tasks across projects, and the example used throughout this
book will help you to create an Execute Catalog Package task that does
in fact allow you to execute a task from another project. Building on
the example's pattern, you can create any task that you like, custom
tailored to your specific, data integration and ETL needs.
What You Will Learn
- Configure and execute Visual Studio in the way that best supports SSIS
task development
- Create a class library as the basis for an SSIS task, and reference
the needed SSIS assemblies
- Properly sign assemblies that you create in order to invoke them from
your task
- Implement source code control via Visual Studio Team Services, or your
own favorite tool set
- Code not only your tasks themselves, but also the associated task
editors
- Troubleshoot and then execute your custom tasks as part of your own
project
Who This Book Is For
Database administrators and developers who are involved in ETL projects
built around SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Readers should have
a background in programming along with a desire to optimize their ETL
efforts by creating custom-tailored tasks for execution from SSIS
packages.
