Build custom SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) tasks using Visual Studio Community Edition
and C#. 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. New in
this edition is a demonstration deploying a custom SSIS task to the Azure Data Factory (ADF)
Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime (IR). All examples in this new edition are implemented in C#.
Custom task developers are shown how to implement custom tasks using the widely accepted and
default language for .NET development. Why are custom components necessary? Because even though
the SSIS catalog of built-in tasks and components is a marvel of engineering gaps remain in
the available functionality. One such gap is a constraint of the built-in SSIS Execute Package
Task which does not allow SSIS developers to select SSIS packages from other projects in the
SSIS Catalog. Examples in this bookshow how to create a custom Execute Catalog Package task
that allows SSIS developers to execute tasks from other projects in the SSIS Catalog. Building
on the examples and patterns in this book SSIS developers may create any task to which they
aspire custom tailored to their 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 Azure DevOps or your own favorite tool set Troubleshoot and execute
custom tasks as part of your own projects Create deployment projects (MSIs) for distributing
code-complete tasks Deploy custom tasks to Azure Data Factory Azure-SSIS IRs in the cloud
Create advanced editors for custom task parameters Who This Book Is For For database
administrators and developers who are involved in ETL projects built around SQL Server
Integration Services (SSIS). Readers do not need a background in software development with C#.
Most important is a desire to optimize ETL efforts by creating custom-tailored tasks for
execution in SSIS packages on-premises or in ADF Azure-SSIS IRs.
