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Join me For Expert SSIS Training!

I’m honored to announce Expert SSIS – a course from Enterprise Data & Analytics!

The next delivery is 01-02 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET.

Data integration is the foundation of data science, business intelligence, and enterprise data warehousing. This instructor-led training class is specifically designed for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) professionals responsible for developing, deploying, and managing data integration at enterprise-scale.

You will learn to improve data integration with SSIS by:

  • Building faster data integration.
  • Making data integration execution more manageable.
  • Building data integration faster.

Agenda

  1. SSIS Design Patterns for Performance – how to build SSIS packages that execute and load data faster by tuning SSIS data flows and implementing performance patterns.
  2. SSIS Deployment, Configuration, Execution, and Monitoring – the “Ops” part of DevOps with SSIS using out-of-the-box tools and the latest utilities.
  3. Automation – how to use Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) to improve SSIS quality and reduce development time.

I hope to see you there!

PS – Want to Learn More About Azure Data Factory?

Follow Andy Leonard’s SSIS Training page for more information.

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Dude, Where’s My Controls? (Visual Studio 2017 Behavior)

I’m coding along on the next release of SSIS Catalog Compare, happy as a clam, when I realize it’s time to add a new menu item. I open the form and… nothing.

To say my heart sank would be an understatement. I had questions. “Dude, where’s my controls?” “What happened?!” “Will I be able to recover?” “How long has this been going on?”

I react this way. It happens all the time and it concludes in a couple seconds. I think about it and often tell myself, “You are not the first person to encounter this issue.”

And then I search for the answer.

I found the answer in less than two minutes here.

The Problem

My designer code was no longer nested beneath the form You can see it here:

See that circled part in the image above? frmConfirmation.Designer.cs should be nested beneath the node above it named frmConfirmation.cs. It’s not, and that’s the problem. When I execute the code in the VS debugger the controls show up. I just can’t edit them.

The Solution

As two respondents mentioned in the link above, the solution is to exclude the Designer.cs file from the project:

Re-add it by right-clicking the project, hovering over Add, and then clicking Existing Item:

Navigate to the Designer.cs file and select it to re-add it to the solution:

This fixes the missing controls:

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