C# on A #dataOp ramblings

Accessing local settings while unit testing Azure Functions

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:45:00 +0100

There’s a lot to chew while unit testing Azure Functions. I going to be quite liberal with the terminology because technically some of this will be in fact integration testing and not unit testing per se.

Either way, Azure Functions load the local.settings.json on startup, creating several environment variables that then we can use in our code. In C# we would access them like so:

tenantId = configRoot["TenantId"];
appId = configRoot["AppId"];

or in Python:

EzApi - Define flat file columns from connection string

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:08:33 +0100

So what’s new?

Thanks to the contribution via GitHub from Hadi Fadl there’s a new method available for the flat file connection manager that adds the existing columns in the source file. This is very handy because in the past you would have to define each and every column that existed in the flat file.

I’ve updated the nuget to version 0.8.93.

Please give me your feedback of anything you might think should be improved.

EzApi - Adding Event Handlers

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:16:56 +0100

How to add event handlers to generated packages

I had a request to give an example of adding event handlers to a generated SSIS package. The code is quite convoluted. There’s no method to initialize a DtsEventHandler, you need to cast it after adding to the package with a String describing the type of event. Here’s a list of the available events:

Here’s a sample of how to do insert a ExecuteSQLTask to a event handler using a small console application: