Category Archives: SSIS

How Can I Make This More Testable?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Howard Dierking

I’ve been going through a refactoring exercise recently with my SSIS data source component for OData (or WCF data services to be more specific).  The primary goals of the refactoring were: Move as much logic as possible out of the … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Projecting Projections

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Howard Dierking

The big idea behind ADO.NET Data Services is that it enables a data source (generally a relational data source) to be exposed via a RESTful service.  In the context of fetching data – which is the principle concern of our … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Class Design

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Howard Dierking

In the process of writing a post about one specific feature of the design, I realized that I hadn’t actually described the moving parts in the solution.  There are 3 projects in the VS solution: the SSIS-specific code, the core … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Howard Dierking

Let me preface this post by saying that it is about my (early) experiences practicing BDD in the context of a specific specification framework – MSpec.  There are plenty of folks out there who are much more authoritative on this … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Code

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Howard Dierking

I’m currently working on the post talking about how, in the course of writing my SSIS data source for ADO.NET Data Services, I stumbled into replacing my unit tests with specifications.  However, in advance of that, I wanted to go … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Take 1

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Howard Dierking

Yea I know – 3 things you never thought you would hear mentioned together.  And to be really honest, I didn’t start out trying to build this in a BDD fashion – and since I’m totally new to the disciplines … Continue reading →

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