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SQL Server Integration Services Tutorial: 4 - Writing Script Tasks in SSIS to Use the Office PIAs

   Chapter: Scripting and Using .NET Assemblies in SSIS
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Duration: 18:30
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Versions/Editions Covered: SQL Server 2005
Added/Updated: Feb 20, 2007

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In part 3, you installed the Office Primary Interop Assemblies into the global assembly cache but, unfortunately for us, that's not enough to allow us to use them in SSIS! To use the Interop assemblies in your Script Tasks in SSIS, you have another step to do and this video shows you:
  1. The final step to configure SSIS to work with the Office Interop assemblies
  2. The basics of the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel class and how to manipulate your Excel worksheet through code
  3. A walk through of a complex PIA-based package

NOTE: This video and the remaining videos in this series require knowledge of:
  • Visual Basic .NET
  • Microsoft Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel XP
  • A Basic Understanding of COM Interop
  • Working Knowledge of the .NET Framework
  • How to Build Data Flow Tasks
  • How to Create and Assign Values to SSIS variables
  • Creating Basic SSIS packages
Tags for this video: Microsoft.Office Microsoft.Office.Interop primary interop assembly  
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This video is part of the following video series: "Creating High Quality Reports Using Excel, SSIS and the Primary Interop Assemblies"
Periodically, we all get requests to create reports - it's a daily event for some developers and admins. A lot of times, the preferred format is Microsoft Excel. Did you know that you can create high quality (good looking) reports directly in SSIS? We're talking about reports that have pictures/logos, custom font schemes, colors, etc - high quality reports!

Highlights from this video series:
  • An overview of the process that you must go through to produce good looking reports using Excel
  • Previewing a complex report generated with SSIS
  • When to use SSIS to build reports as opposed to using SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
  • How to install the Office Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) for use in SSIS
  • The PIA object model
  • Garbage Collection to ensure you free your resources after referncing the PIAs
  • Assigning variables, variables as data sources, SQL command from variable
and much more


NOTE: This video series requires knowledge of:
  • Visual Basic .NET
  • Microsoft Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel XP
  • A Basic Understanding of COM Interop
  • Working Knowledge of the .NET Framework
  • How to Build Data Flow Tasks
  • How to Create and Assign Values to SSIS variables
  • Creating Basic SSIS packages
To view all videos in this series, click here

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Scott Whigham Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott Whigham's full bio can be found on the About the Author page)

   
 
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