My latest SSIS 101 article - SSIS 101: Object Variables, ResultSets, and Foreach Loop Containers - is live at SQL Server Central today! Enjoy! :{> Andy

Harper Trow of GenYSystems tells me he cannot open SSIS 2005 packages in Visual Studio 2008. I have not yet confirmed this personally but I trust Harper implicitly - he's one of the smartest developers I know. More later... In a related story: there's a download that allows you to interact with SQL Server 2008 CTP 5 from within Visual Studio ...

I am honored and so excited to be presenting a couple sessions at the PASS Summit in Denver next month! One presentation is entitled Integrate Your SSIS Development. The focus is on SSIS development and testing. I touch on continuous integration and test-first development - using Team Foundation Server for the CI and Team ...