Developing a Custom Log Provider

Integration Services has extensive logging capabilities that make it possible to capture events that occur during package execution. Integration Services includes a variety of log providers that enable logs to be created and stored in formats such as XML, text, database, or in the Windows event log. If the log providers and the output formats that are provided do not entirely meet your requirements, you can create a custom log provider.

To create a custom log provider, you have to create a class that inherits from the LogProviderBase base class, apply the DtsLogProviderAttribute attribute to your new class, and override the important methods and properties of the base class, including the ConfigString property and the Log method.

For working samples of custom log providers, see the Integration Services samples on Codeplex.

In This Section

This section describes how to create, configure, and code a custom log provider.

• Creating a Custom Log Provider
  Describes how to create the classes for a custom log provider project.

• Coding a Custom Log Provider
  Describes how to implement a custom log provider by overriding the methods and properties of the base class.

• Developing a User Interface for a Custom Log Provider
  Custom user interfaces for custom log providers are not supported in SQL Server Integration Services.

Related Topics

Information Common to all Custom Objects

For information that is common to all the type of custom objects that you can create in Integration Services, see the following topics:

• Developing Custom Objects for Integration Services
  Describes the basic steps in implementing all types of custom objects for Integration Services.

• Persisting Custom Objects
  Describes custom persistence and explains when it is necessary.

• Building, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Objects
  Describes the techniques for building, signing, deploying, and debugging custom objects.

Information about Other Custom Objects

For information on the other types of custom objects that you can create in Integration Services, see the following topics:

• Developing a Custom Task
  Discusses how to program custom tasks.

• Developing a Custom Connection Manager
  Discusses how to program custom connection managers.

• Developing a Custom ForEach Enumerator
  Discusses how to program custom enumerators.

• Developing a Custom Data Flow Component
  Discusses how to program custom data flow sources, transformations, and destinations.

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