Professional SQL Server™ 2005 Integration Services

14.3. Building the Components

Now you can move on to actually building the components. These components are simple and demonstrate the most commonly used methods when building your own components. They also help give you an idea of what the composition of a component resembles, the order in which things happen, and which method is meant to do what. They will not implement all the available methods. The components have been built and they can be extended, so why not download them and give them a go? If you happen to break them, simply revert back to a previous good copy. No programmer gets things right the first time, so having the component break is part of the experience. Or at least that's what programmers tell themselves at two o'clock in the morning when they are still trying to figure out why the thing isn't doing what they asked. The component classes will be covered in the next sections. You will then be shown how to make sure your component appears in the correct folder, what to put in the AssemblyInfo file, how it gets registered in the GAC, and how to sign the assembly. This is common to all three components, so it will be dealt with as one also.

14.3.1. Preparation

In this section of the chapter, you'll go through the steps that are common to all the pipeline components. These are the basic sets of things you need to do before you fly into coding.

Start by opening Visual Studio 2005, and create a New Project, a Class Library project as shown in Figure 14-1.

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