Chapter 10. Interacting with a Package Using Visual Basic

Interacting with a Package Using Visual Basic

In Chapter 9, “Building a Package Using Visual Basic,” you saw that in some situations the DTS Designer might not be the best tool to implement your solution. You then created a VB program that used the DTS object model to transform and load data into a SQL database. In this chapter, you will build on this knowledge and investigate some best practices. You will learn about the following:[1]

  • Executing DTS packages from Visual Basic

  • Making best-practice modifications to DTS VB .bas files

  • Loading and saving packages

  • Event Handling

  • Error Handling

Armed with this knowledge, we will investigate DTS ...

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