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Creating an SSIS Custom Task, Part 2

Published on February 20, 2016 Author Michael

In the last article we created a simple SSIS package to generate an SSRS report and save it to disk. For a single report this is fine as it didn’t require a lot of code but imagine if we wanted to write new packages and reuse this code. This is where script tasks break down.… Continue reading Creating an SSIS Custom Task, Part 2 →

Categories C#, SSIS

Documenting Web APIs with Swagger

Published on February 7, 2016 Author Michael

A while back I posted an article on how to extend the existing help pages generated by Visual Studio for Web API projects to use reflection instead of XML documentation. One of the limitations of that approach was that you could not test the APIs directly. You had to use SoapUI or equivalent. Since then… Continue reading Documenting Web APIs with Swagger →

Categories .NET, Web API

Creating an SSIS Custom Task, Part 1

Published on January 18, 2016 Author Michael

Recently I had the need to create a couple of custom tasks for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) at work and I was shocked at how few the resources were for doing this. There are a lot of blogs and articles about creating SSIS custom tasks, but most of them are outdated or wrong. Even… Continue reading Creating an SSIS Custom Task, Part 1 →

Categories SSIS

Documenting Web APIs

Published on November 14, 2015 Author Michael

Prerequisite: This post assumes you understand what web APIs are, what they are designed for and how to write them. If not then take a look at this MSDN article first. In order for web APIs to be useful they need documentation. Unlike traditional APIs there is no function signatures to look at. Even if… Continue reading Documenting Web APIs →

Categories ASP.NET, Web API

WebHooks vs Message Bus

Published on November 7, 2015 Author Michael

WebHooks are a relatively new concept in ASP.NET but they have been around for a while with other platforms. GitHub, PayPal and even Dropbox support them already. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of a webHook then go read the introduction first. Recently I needed to solve a problem for which WebHooks seemed like… Continue reading WebHooks vs Message Bus →

Categories ASP.NET, MVC, WebHooks

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