Just very recently I encountered an issue in deploying a custom SSIS component assembly where I cannot add a custom SSIS transformation to the Visual Studio toolbox.
It turns out to be a relative "no-brainer" error if only the clues were more straightforward. Basically after deploying the assembly I could not find my component listed in the "SSIS Data Flow Items" tab list. More...
How do you "autogenerate" a "using" namespace for a class you typed in Visual Studio? Read along... More...
March 13, 2008 08:47 by
Ryan
Just ran into one of Bill Evjen's blog post about interesting Visual Studio Plugins and from there came across Visual Studio Gallery - Products and Extensions for Visual Studio.
I don't actually mess with my Visual Studio installation (except for CoolCommands) since as we know it's critical for work but if you feel like giving things a test drive then the items there looks pretty interesting. There's just too many new things going on and needs to be learned lately but trying things out than simply reading about them always is a good way to learn.
March 10, 2008 03:47 by
RyanI've done this a couple of times but I still tend to forget at times so
I might as well post here for me and hopefully someone else's reference.
To create a Windows Service see this article by Ken Getz :
Windows Services: New Base Classes in .NET Make Writing a Windows Service Easy
There
are a number of ways to install a windows service, one of which is
using installutil.exe but this post will be using Setup Project which
for me is a little easier to implement:
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March 10, 2008 02:56 by
RyanThe collapse/expand all project and the open containing folder (plus
other features) would save time/effort so check out this addin from
Gaston Milano. I've tried this out myself for sometime already and
didn't get into any issue so go give it a try.
http://weblogs.asp.net/gmilano/archive/2005/11/10/430240.aspx