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SSIS Error: The task cannot run on this edition of Integration Services.

Chris Canal — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:56:01 GMT

I'm trying to deploy an SSIS task onto a server and I'm getting the following error:

The task "script task" cannot run on this edition of Integration Services. It requires a higher level edition

The task in question is a Script Task and the SSIS package is loaded from the file system and executed with C#. It connects to a spreadsheet and retrieves the first worksheets name. It works fine locally but not on the server. The version of SQL Server installed is Enterprise Edition.

I didn't write the package, my development manager did and he's on holiday for 2 weeks and the client is in tomorrow.

Has anyone came across this? It's possibly my fault, I haven't really worked with SSIS before. I'm now going to have to replicate what the script does in C#, so any suggestions that saves me from doing so will be greatly appreciated!

ALT.NET Geek Code Generator

Chris Canal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:36:39 GMT

Scott Hanselman has been spending some time making an interesting ALT.NET Greek Code Generator. Just check some boxes and create your very own ALT.NET Geek badge, now in Silverlight!

TeamCity and NUnit 2.4.7 Updated

Chris Canal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:02:01 GMT

If your on the ALT.NET mailing list, you probably seen the argument debate of the choice of CI Server. I've always used CC.NET, but decided to give TeamCity a whirl last night.

Overall I'm impressed, but I'm having a problem running my tests. I'm using the latest build of NUnit (2.4.7) and Team City returns an error :

Failure executing test(s). If you assembly is not built using NUnit version 2.4.6.0, then ensure you have redirected assembly bindings. Consult the documentation of the <nunit2> task for more information.

I've gone through the documenation and tried to find out how to sort it, but I've had no luck so far. Has anyone had this problem?

*Update*
Got it sorted. Todays lesson: Don't be so lazy! I was originally building it with the solution file. I switched it to my NAnt script and it seems to be working ok now... Now to work out if there is anyway to display the NUnit test results.... :)

Resharper NHibermate plugin

Chris Canal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:23:09 GMT

Stefan Lieser has posted a great preview of a plugin he's working on for Resharper for working with NHibernate mapping files. I've installed it and like it alot already. Anything that makes it easer to work with XML is a good thing in my book!

Features he has implemented so far are:

Name and type of mapped class is verified
Id name and type is verified
Property names and types are verified (not the access attribute!)
many-to-one and one-to-one names and types are verified
Component names and types are verified, including properties and nested components
Subclass names are verified

Only thing I've noticed is that it doesn't seem to properly resolve a Properties type. For more info and to download, check out Stefan's post: http://www.lieser-online.de/blog/?p=76

Problems building rhino-tools/Castle/NHibernate

Chris Canal — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:16:53 GMT

I'm trying to build rhino-tools/Castle/NHibernate stack following the instructions here: http://davidgardiner.blogspot.com/2007/10/building-rhino-tools-from-trunk.html but for the life of me I can't get it working! Whenever I try to build Castle, either using the modified build script from Dave or the ones supplied with Castle I get the following error:

Warning as error: Invalid search path 'C:\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\lib' specified in 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system cannot find the path specifiied'

Notice the \\? That's not a typo, exactly the error message returned. I've search high and low for where this path is coming from but I can't find anything!

Has anyone ever came across this problem before? Any suggestions?

Web Deployment Project for Visual Studio 2008

Chris Canal — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:14:44 GMT

I've just downloaded the new release of WDP for 2008 and have noticed something, it seems to deploy the .csproj file and the csproj.user file. Is it supposed to do this? Seems a little strange to me.

Bringing the Clipboard into the 21st century

Chris Canal — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:32:16 GMT

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has an interesting post on a Clipboard replacement called ClipX.

I''ve just installed it and really am left confused why something similar hasn't been introduced to Windows in all this time!