Developing a Custom Task

Integration Services uses tasks to perform units of work in support of the extraction, transformation, and loading of data. Integration Services includes a variety of tasks that perform the most frequently used actions, from executing an SQL statement to downloading a file from an FTP site. If the included tasks and supported actions do not completely meet your requirements, you can create a custom task.

To create a custom task, you have to create a class that inherits from the Task base class, apply the DtsTaskAttribute attribute to your new class, and override the important methods and properties of the base class, including the Execute method.

For working samples of custom tasks, see the Creating a Custom Increment Task Sample.

In This Section

This section describes how to create, configure, and code a custom task and its optional custom user interface.

Topic	Description
Creating a Custom Task	Describes the first step, which is creating the custom task.
Coding a Custom Task	Describes how to code the principal methods of a custom task.
Connecting to Data Sources in a Custom Task	Describes how to connect a custom task to a data source.
Raising and Defining Events in a Custom Task	Describes how to raise events and define custom events from the custom task.
Adding Support for Debugging in a Custom Task	Describes how to create breakpoint targets in the custom task.
Developing a User Interface for a Custom Task	Describes how to create a user interface that shows in SSIS Designer to configure properties on the custom task.

Related Sections

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

Topic	Description
Developing Custom Objects for Integration Services	Describes the basic steps in implementing all kinds 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.

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

Topic	Description
Developing a Custom Connection Manager	Discusses how to program custom connection managers.
Developing a Custom Log Provider	Discusses how to program custom log providers.
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.

See Also

Reference

Extending the Package with the Script Task
Comparing Scripting Solutions and Custom Objects

Concepts

Programming Samples

Help and Information

Getting SQL Server 2005 Assistance