Custom SSRS Components
Jun 15, 2007Is it possible to create a custom SSRS .NET component that can view the report parameters and values contained within?
Thanks!
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Developing Custom Components By Extending The SSIS Stock Data Flow Components
Sep 7, 2006Everything I've read says that custom data flow components are built by inheriting from the Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.PipelineComponent class.
But the stock components such as the Derived Column data flow transformation must each be implemented by their own class. So how do I base my custom components on those classes? The documentation for the PipelineComponent class doesn't list any such subclasses.
Custom Components On 64-bit
Jan 22, 2008Hi again, All!!
I'm having a problem with problems with some custom components I built. I have a custom Connection Manager and Data Flow Source that I have built.
My local PC is 64-bit, but I followed the MS instructions on building and deploying custom components. They run fine inside of VS2005, as long as I have 'Run64BitRuntime" set to 'False'. When I try to run packages using the custom components in 64-bit mode, I get:
Error: 0xC0014005 at : The connection type "<MyConnectionManagerType>" specified for connection manager "PRI" is not recognized as a valid connection manager type. This error is returned when an attempt is made to create a connection manager for an unknown connection type. Check the spelling in the connection type name.
I suspect I need to either change the way I build or deploy the custom components. Can someone shed some light on this?
Thanks,
Frank
Some Ideas For Custom Tasks/components
Mar 13, 2006Hello,
I had an idea that it would be nice to be able to extend the functionality of an existing SSIS component or task by inheriting from it. Perhaps in a similar way to how it is possible to extend user controls in .Net.
e.g. The rowcount is a useful component but it would be good to create a new component that inherits from it and then override the PostExecute() method to fire an Information event containing the number of rows. That's a very simple example but I think you get the gist.
Does anyone think that would be useful? Or even made possible?
I was also wondering whether it would be possible for the SSI team to make all the icons used within SSIS available as .ico files so that we could modify them for tasks/components that might do similar things.
Thanks
-Jamie
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How To Market Custom SSIS Components?
Oct 10, 2007
Hi,
As a hobby, I am creating custom SQL Server Integration Services components, which are installed as an add-on to out of the box components. They are mainly used to reduce the development time and minimize the maintance overhead. I would like to know, how I should market them? What are the mediums to use? Since this is the first time, I am creating a software for mass markets, I would really appreciate your help while marketing this baby.
Just FYI, the first commercially available package that I develop is for creating text based files. My package connects to any OLE DB datasource. Executes the query and stores the output in a text file. It is very useful while developing database driven custom feeds. Instead of working with multiple dataflow tasks, data flow sources, you just need to configure one single component and the rest is taken care for you. Since, the package implements the standard Microsoft Task Editor, it is very easy to learn.
Thanks for your help.
Cem
Using VB.Net For Applications And The VBA Editor From Custom Components?
Jun 30, 2006Hi,
Is it possible to make use of VB.Net for Applications and the VBA editor from your own Custom Transform Components (like the script component does)?
I would like to create a component that generates boiler-plate VBA code and that then allows developers to add their own specialised code in certain methods using the editor (just like the script component)
If so, is there any documentation anywhere on how to go about this?
Thanks in advance,
Lawrie
Is It Possible To Version Custom SSIS Components?
Jul 17, 2006Is it possible to use versioning at all with SSIS components?
My experience so far is that I have not figured out how version them at all, because if I change the version number, then apparently the <property name="UserComponentTypeName" ...> has to be changed in every single reference to the component, in every dataflow, in every single dtsx file that uses the component at all -- this will be a tremendous headache as some of this stuff is in source control. It seemsl clearly infeasible to check out and substitute and change all these references, and check them all back in, except very infrequently -- surely not feasible to do it for each small change.
I am in the habit of versioning dlls and assemblies, and actually changing at least a minor build number for each actual change, so I am a bit unhappy to find that apparently I cannot feasibly do this for a custom SSIS component :(
(I just find a dislike at apparently being forced to leave the version number invariant when I make code changes.)
What I would be very happy with, is if there were a way to adjust all the references in all the dtsx files, to refer to only the major and minor build numbers say, specifying that I am not picky about the revision numbers below those, so that it will find the latest component in the GAC matching the major and minor numbers.
That way I could still update the component version with each code change, which would make me happy, and not have to edit a zillion dtsx occurrences (not having to do that would also make me happy).
Anyone know if that is possible?
I'm hoping it is, and that it is only my ignorance at component references preventing me from doing so.
Custom HTML && Javascript OR Components
Dec 4, 2007I've been trying to find a solution to adding javascript and/or HTML to a report (not reportviewer). After a search I found that you can add javascript to a textbox under action properties and it works fine. Is there a way to add custom code anywhere on the page.
The problem is the charts that come with SRS is limited so I'd like to add my own. I'd also like to add some ajax functionality as well. I know it's possible because a company called Dundas is doing it but not exactly sure how they implemented it. We considered Dundas but they are just too expensive for the solution we need.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Using Custom Components Without Installing .dlls
Sep 7, 2007Is there a way to use a custom component programmatically (I'm using C# to create and run my packages) without installing a compiled .dll of the class into the SQL folders and the GAC? For instance, can I instantiate my custom component and somehow pass it to be used in a task in my code.
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May 21, 2006I need VB.NET source code showing how to create a Custom Component. in SSIS (All the ones I've seen are written in C#.)
TIA,
barkingdog
Custom Components - How To Evaluate A Property As An Expression?
Apr 11, 2008
Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone's accomplished this before - I've been unable to find a whiff of info on how to do this so far.
I'm creating a custom component that I'd like to give a "Derived Column" type of ability to. By that, I mean I'd like to populate a property of my component with an expression (including references to input columns, package variables and functions) and be able to evaluate it at runtime - per row processed by the component.
I would also appreciate any information as to how to provide the interface to allow the user to build such an expression as well - is there a UI function in SSIS I can call to pop up the "expression builder"?
Thanks!
SSIS Performance Question For Custom Components
Nov 15, 2007
I have a SQL Server 2005 Package (32 bit, 4 processors/16 GB of RAM, 3 GB switch for SSIS) with 1 DataFlow and 5 Custom Components:
> An OLEDB Source that reads a stoed proc from Sybase
> 3 Transform Components that perform: 6-required fields check, 4-lookups (3 cached, 1 non-cached), and a calculation that is performed(called) from a .NET Library.
> A SQL Destination that uses the .NET BulkCopy Class to insert the data.
It takes about 3 hours to load 1 million records that contain 46 columns (the largest being a varchar(100)). I have tried a good number of tuning options as well as indexing/SQL techniques to improve perfromance.
Some pieces of info:
1) We dynamically create the buffer during runtime based on an SSIS variable.
2) The actions of the components are determined at runtime through config files.
We do these two things so we can have multiple data flows run through the same package for better scalability and flexibility. Since we are dynamically creating the buffer I can NOT use any of the out of the box components because of lineage and metadata inconsistency issues.
3) I noticed on PerfMon that I am spooling buffers to disk after 100K rows.
I realize this is bad, but what are my alternatives?
Should I go to 64 bit? Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks in advance,
Anthony
Creating Error Output For Custom Components
Feb 14, 2006Hi,
I have a 2 custom components - source and destination.
I want to create an error output for each, to allow the users of my component to handle errors the way they choose.
I only found a property in IDTSOuptut90 named isErrorOut - a boolean property indicating whether this output is an error output or not.
Does anyone have additional documentation / articles / code samples regarding how to really populate the rows in the error output?
Thanks
Custom Tasks/Components - Changing Version W/o Breaking Packages
May 28, 2008Whenever I make a breaking change to a custom SSIS component/tasks and update the Assembly Version, it seems to break my packages beyond repair, telling me it can't load the task:
Error loading Package1.dtsx: Error loading a task. The contact information for the task is "". This happens when loading a task fails.
All of the properties of said task now show:
Could not get value for property 'c-155-designer-name'. Specified cast is not valid.
Typically, a "breaking" change when it comes to code just means that you need to update your components to adhere to the new contract of the updated signatures. But with SSIS, it seems the only solution to this is to completely remove the component, and re-add the new version, and re-enter all of the property values/expressions. If I have a package containing 10 instances of a task that only had one property removed, for example, this results in a very time-consuming process of fixing my package.
So my questions:
1) Am I doing something wrong in my versioning/deployment that is causing my packages to unnecessarily break?
2) If this is just "by design" and the way it's meant to behave, what is the best practice for making breaking changes to custom tasks/components used by many packages? Should I just never change the assembly version, even when it is a breaking change (this seems to be less disastrous)?
3) As a last resort, if I'm stuck with having to fix the broken tasks, is there a better way to fix them rather than having to completely remove them, re-add them, and re-set all of their properties/expressions?
Thanks in advance.
Jerad
Custom Data Flow Components, DllImport, And Third Party Dlls
Mar 29, 2007I've been having an issue with the integration of a third-party DLL into a custom data flow component.
The company sent me a C# project that generates a simple console application. The project includes a class that calls their DLL with DllImport. The console application runs fine.
I created a stand-alone class using the C# class they sent to expose the methods of their DLL. In my custom component, I'm referencing this class to pass data to and from their DLL.
The first method from that stand-alone class that my component encounters simply gets their installation path from the registry and does not use DllImport. That path retrieval works fine. The next method calls a function that is declared with DllImport. Each time the call fails with "System.DllNotFoundException = {"Unable to load DLL AMZip.dll': Exception from HRESULT: 0xE06D7363"}".
I've copied this DLL to countless locations (e.g., the PipelineComponents directory, the project/solution bin directory) and included these paths in all manner of path variables.
What am I missing here? Their DLL is not strong named (does this matter since I'm using DllImport?), my stand-alone class is, and of course, the custom component itself is. I appreciate the help.
Class And Sequence Diagrams Describing SSIS Framework (for Custom Components)?
Jun 30, 2006Hi,
Can anyone tell me where I might find the Class and Sequence Diagrams for the SSIS framework (for Custom Components)?
I've just started trying to create some Custom Transform Components and
I'm really struggling to get my head around the component lifecycle
(i.e what methods are called when, with what arguments, and why) with
just the BOL documentation to guide me.
Thanks in advance,
Lawrie
Reporting Services :: Interface Code Compatibility Between Custom Delivery Extension Of SSRS 2008R2 And SSRS 2012?
Sep 3, 2015Currently we are using Custom Delivery Extension for SSRS 2008R2 We are planning to move it SSRS2012
My Question is: Whether we can use the same Code used for SSRS2008R2 to SSRS2012?
if not what code changes we should do?
Attn Microsoft : Incorrect Screenshot - SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Hands On Training - Creating Custom Components
Jun 25, 2006Hi All,
I am not sure if this is a correct forum to discuss on the document posted @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1c2a7dd2-3ec3-4641-9407-a5a337bea7d3&displaylang=en on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Hands on Training - Creating Custom Components.
I am assuming Microsoft Developers are constantly monitoring this forum.
In the document - SSIS Creating a Custom Transformation Component .doc on Page 2 -
Exercise 1 - Writing the no-op data flow transformation component -
Task 1 - Create a new C# Class Library Project
The textual description talks about creating a new Visual C# Class Library project in VS 2005 but the screenshot accompanying it shows the creation of new "Integration Service Project" in VS 2005.
Please change the screenshot appropriately to avoid confusions.
Thanks,
Loonysan
SSIS Logs Vs Custom Logs Components
Feb 12, 2007Hi,
In my case I have to log the errors raised by any task in a package to either windows event log, text file or SQL server. Also I need to send an email notifications to a group of people telling them about the error.
Now can I use SSIS package logging for logging the errors into the required destinations. I mean right clicking on the package and selecting Logging, then adding the required log providers and enabling the events for logging into those. I think I have to upfront select the log providers to log the error, I will not have the liberty to log the error to the destination, the name of which is passed as a variable to the package. This is okay with me though.
Now what will a custom log provider help me to do in this case. Also can I somehow configure my package to call the send mail task everytime an error is raised.
Also, one more option can be developing a package that only does the error handling. It will take in the paramters or the error codes and descriptions, the destination to write to and a flag to send mail or not for that particular type of error.
What do you think? Kindly advise.
Thanks in advance for your help and time.
Regards,
$wapnil
Custom Assembly And Ssrs 2005
Mar 28, 2008i deigned assembly and referced it to my report in preview
when deployed the report , i get #Error
i don't add any cas code.
pls help
Problem In SSRS Custom Code
Apr 21, 2007HI all, I am having a problem while trying to create a list item through SSRS.The scenario:I have created a SSRS report which has custom code. the report has some parameters. The code accepts the parameters and tries to create a list item in moss. I have added the required references. This works fine as long as I work in VISUAL STUDIO IDE. When I deploy the report to report server it throws an error in the code.Can anybody help me in this...?Regards...
Girija Shankar
Using Custom Assembly In Ssrs 2008
Mar 25, 2008I have a custom assembly that I'm trying to use with my resport in Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008.
I keep consistently getting a "Request for the permission of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlClientPermission, System.Data,Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed" error. Even in preview mode.
- I added <Assembly: AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers()> attribute to the assembly
- I'm asserting the permission in the routine that is doing the database call with the follwing lines:
Dim permission As SqlClient.SqlClientPermission = New SqlClient.SqlClientPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted)
permission.Assert()
- I went in .net 2.0 Framework configuration and made the assembly fully trusted
- I added the approprtiate codegroup to the rssrvpolicy.config file
- I tried the same assembly on another PC running SQL server reporting services 2005, its working just fine.
what is it that I am missing?
Custom Ordering In MDX For SSRS Report
Feb 27, 2008
Hi guys,
i Have the following code for a SSRS Matrix Report.
SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[Ordered Qty], [Measures].[Line Fill %], [Measures].[Qty Fill %], [Measures].[Delivered Qty], [Measures].[Delivered Lines], [Measures].[Ordered Lines] } ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY {[Customer].[Customer Name].[Customer Name].ALLMEMBERS * [Market].[Product Group].[Product Group].ALLMEMBERS * {[Time Calculations].[MTD Pr Mth],[Time Calculations].[MTD]} } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS
FROM ( SELECT ( STRTOSET(@DatePeriod, CONSTRAINED) ) ON COLUMNS FROM ( SELECT ( STRTOSET(@DateYear, CONSTRAINED) ) ON COLUMNS FROM [DIFOT]))
WHERE ( IIF( STRTOSET(@DateYear, CONSTRAINED).Count = 1, STRTOSET(@DateYear, CONSTRAINED), [Date].[Year].currentmember ), IIF( STRTOSET(@DatePeriod, CONSTRAINED).Count = 1, STRTOSET(@DatePeriod, CONSTRAINED), [Date].[Period].currentmember ) )
CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, BACK_COLOR, FORE_COLOR, FORMATTED_VALUE, FORMAT_STRING, FONT_NAME, FONT_SIZE, FONT_FLAGS
Parent is the Customer Name, with Drill Down to Product Group.
Is their a way that i can sort this report so the customers with the highest [Measures].[Ordered Lines] for ],[Time Calculations].[MTD] is on the top.
Ive been trying to work out the ORDER command in MDX, but i cannot seem to get it to work..
Any help would be great
Thanks
Scotty
Using Composition To Create New Specialised Components From Multiple Sub-components?
Jun 30, 2006Hi,
In another thread Jamie Thomson very informatively said "The components in SSIS
are deliberately atomic (i.e. they do something very specific) so that
its easy to put them together to build something greater than the sum
of the parts". Which does make a lot of sense. However, I've been finding that I end up having to create exactly the same "pattern" of combined transform components again and again in order to solve the same problem but in different dataflows (or even within the same dataflow). Cut-and-paste-tastic! In order to obtain real re-use, it seems to me like SSIS is crying out for an easy way to create new components by using composition - i.e. the ability to take commonly-used combinations of existing components and create new "super" components (without having to write Custom Transform Components in C#/VB.Net and handle everything in code).
Does anyone know if this sort of functionality is likely to make it into SSIS in the forseeable future?
Regards,
Lawrie
Reporting Services :: SSRS Custom Code
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Reuse Existing Data Flow Components In A Custom Data Flow Component
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SSRS Reporting From Custom List Returning 1;# In SQL Report
Apr 28, 2008Hi,
I have a set up SSRS which is reporting from a custom list in sharepoint to SQL 2005. I have created a parameter on the SQL report to return data from a field in the sharepoint list, however when it retrieves the data i get 1;# in front of the returned data?
Why would this happen?
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SSRS Custom Security Extensions: Copying Between Machines
Apr 24, 2007Hi,
Have compiled and set up a custom security extension for SQL Reporting Services on my local machine and got it working. However, I'm trying to copy the extension across to a different server. So far, I've tried copying the updated dlls straight from my machine to the server and making the relevant changes in Reporting Services .config files (rsWebApplication.config, rssvrpolicy.config, etc)
Initially, the Forms authentication redirects to a login page as expected. However, when we try to submit a login name and password from this login page, it throws this error message:
"Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined."
Is copying the dlls straight across a bad idea?
If anyone has encountered a similar issue, do you know if there are there certain things I should be checking for, or have missed, when trying to replicate a custom security extension on a different machine?
(FYI, the original server where it worked was Windows XP SP2, new server is Windows Server 2003 SP1)
Reporting Services :: Custom Shapes In SSRS Report
Aug 20, 2015I have an application that will ask a user about faults in a car. The info is stored in a database.
I want to create a report that will have a 'picture' of a car, as in the below; and will be highlighted depending on which part is faulty.
For example, if the bonnet is faulty, then it must be highlighted in a specific color.
Reporting Services :: How To Add Custom DLL In SSRS Report 2010
Jun 17, 2015I am working on SSRS report with project server 2013 and I want to add custom dll in SSRS report.I have create dll first then add into GAC Assembly After that i have add this dll in report project in SSRS.when i have try to deploy and build report...
.An error Occurred during local report processing.
Failed to load expression host assembly.
Details : Cannot Perform CAS Asserts in Security Transparent methods.
Images With Custom DataSet Passed To SSRS Not Displaying
Oct 17, 2007
Hi,
I'm developing an ASP.NET application that creates on-demand reports with Reporting Services 2005 in report server.
I use a custom data set that contains the data that I want to bind to the report, and I use a WebService to pass that DataSet to the reporting services to accomplish my purpose.
The query passed to the reporting services is:
<Query>
<Method Namespace=http://myNameSpace.com Name="GetDataSetForReport"/> <SoapAction>http://myNameSpace.com/WebService/GetDataSetForReport</SoapAction>
<ElementPath IgnoreNamespaces="True">GetDataSetForReportResponse{}/GetDataSetForReportResult{}/diffgram{}/ReportDataSet{}/MyTable{Fields1,Fields2,Fields3,..,FieldsN,Image}</ElementPath>
</Query>
This works well and all the fields are displayed in the report fine except the Image Fields, that are not showing (the red X appears instead of the image).
The issue is that all the data that is bind to the dataset is contained in a SQL Server 2005 database, and the Image column in the table of that database is a VARBINARY(MAX) field (I insert the image into the database table).
Also, when I created the dataset in .NET, the column type of the dataset I declared for the Image field was Byte[], but that didn't work for me. I've also tried to declare as the field type Byte,SqlByte,Image,SqlBinary, etc without succesfull results.
I've also tried creating a XML Schema, declaring the Image field as base64Binary, then do DataSet.ReadXMLSchema(myschema) and then retrievied the data from sql server and filled the dataset, Again, the Images doesn`t display.
For finnishing my unsatisfactory tests, I've also tried to handle the image data with a MemoryStream object:
MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream();
MemoryStream oStream = new MemoryStream();
mem.Write((Byte[])dr["Image"],0 , ((Byte[])dr["Image"]).Length); //dr is the datareader used to read from the DB
Image image = Image.FromStream(mem);
try
{
image.Save(oStream, ImageFormat.Png);
}
catch{}
newRow["Image"] = oStream.GetBuffer(); //newRow is a row of the custom DataSet.Table passed to the SSRS.
But again, the Image is not showing.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for you time.
SQL Server 2008 :: Running (sub-report) In SSRS From Custom Code?
Aug 6, 2015I have a balance sheet report developed and working. What I need to do is add the ability to click (or double-click) on a number and have a separate report (drill-down) open with the detail that makes up that number. I've researched drill-through reports, sub reports, etc. but can't find a way to do what I want.
I'm now thinking that I need to add custom code in the report properties, code window to do this. I'm hoping that there is a VB method I can use to call this report and pass a parameter. Pseudo-code for this function would look something like this: RunReport("DrillDownReport", "Parameter").
This seems like it should be pretty easy but I don't know what the function is in VB for running an SSRS report (if there is one).
Is this possible or am I barking up the wrong code tree?