Anyone aware of guidance on creating a custom SSIS connection manager? I want to abstract the complexities of a source system for the folks that need to extract data out of it using SSIS.
The MSDN tutorial is probably not a bad place to start. I haven't tried using their examples to implement a custom connection manager, but I was able to follow their documentation on custom data flow components to create a few of those without too much fuss in the past, so hopefully the connection manager examples are on the same level. I also found this example, which is probably a little more extensive code-wise since it was actually developed for use.
Keep in mind (as they mention on the MSDN page) that custom connection managers don't always play nice with the built-in components, so you often have to create custom data source components as well. Information about developing those seems to be more common at least, probably because actually parsing the source data tends to be a more varied task than setting up the connection.
Is it a one-off package, or intended to be reusable? If the latter, you could simply use a script as a source component (per this example). If it needs limited re-use, copy/paste may be good enough; if not then perhaps a custom component (example here) would do the trick.
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The goal is to design beautiful templates in InDesign, which are then being used to programmatically generate printable PDFs within a special application connected to a database, so I can fill data from the database into the templates.
I have no idea how to approach this. I found a lot of HTML to PDF conversion related info, but that approach has its limitations.
Did anybody face the same question and might point me in the right direction?
Yes, the scenario you described can be fully handled by InDesign Scripting using ExtendScript. I have done this in the past several times and it works quite well. The key in my opinion is to have a designer prepare the file for you as finished as possible and make good use of the built in InDesign automations. That means they will do the layout, but also set up all the paragraph styles, character styles, object styles and possibly grep styles as well as master spreads for each different page.
Then the job of the script that you run will mostly be to fill in the contents and to assign the mentioned styles and master spread as needed. If everything is set up properly, most of the layout should fall into place automatically.
Also, contrary to the comments to your question, I don't think you need InDesign server for that. Especially if you run everything locally anyways.
Since each part of MEAN stack projects are separated, it's really hard to refactor the whole project. I'm trying to do the following things
Modify mongoose schemas
Reorganize server code
Rename some api calls and parameters
Modify Angular code to adapt new APIs
Is there any good ways to do them?
There is no tool for any of theese dedicated to MEAN stack. Yeo Man got some generators but these existing are only for creating, not for refactoring. You can still create your own yeo man generator with custom actions or any other server side script that is looking for patterns and changing names according to given configuation file. This can be also automated with gulp or grunt task runners, but its really time-consuming ;)
I hope someone have already faced an issue to verify that application shows correct data from database. I reviewd how groovy used SQL, but I have no idea where and how I should do that. I'm just starting to use gradle+Spock+Geb for testing application. I have a few files where I described a couple of pages from application, a couple of modules and a file with spock specification. Where and how I need to connect to Oracle DB, use SQL and compare result's data with application's ones?
P.S. I write everything in notepad++ and launch from command line writing 'gradlew firefoxTest'. Does exist any more comfortable way to work with gradle+spock+geb?
Thanks in advance.
Because there are no other answers, I wanted to provide a solution someone at my company thought of. This assumes you already have a project that uses some sort of JDBC. In our case it is JDBI.
The idea is to extend Classloader and then use that to directly access the data access object class via the JVM. That idea should work.
I have not tested it out because it doesn't completely fit our use-case. I'll admit that this does not completely apply to your use case, but technically you could just run the jar of an existing project, which can access the database.
How do you create a custom database driver to extend CodeIgniter's functionalities to other types of database systems? I'm using iRODS (www.irods.org). I have a version of the site created using MySQL, but I want to be able to change the database backend with minimal changes. Is there an easy way to add this function, like how you can add a custom library in CI? I haven't been able to find any so far.
I'm assuming you mean how do you create a custom Active Record driver for codeigniter? Otherwise I'm probably far off the mark here but:
There is no way I know of to simply extend or override the DB classes it is not a common thing. You can implement your own and patch up your CI config to use the new DB though.
Under system/database/drivers you find all the AR driver source. You would need to reimplement each function in each of the four files (may be able to skip on forge if you don't use it.)
I'd use the MySQL driver as a starting template as you mention you already use that, in which case you'll want to make sure all the features you use are re-implemented.
It sounds like a daunting task if you're not too experienced but I assure you the code is pretty simple.
I would like to extend my WinForms app, which a feature that allows me to monitor which functions are used by the users.
The idea is to count how many times e.g. a button has been clicked, or a popup was opened.
I want to know which features are used more or less often by the users.
Any ideas how this can be done? (Or even if somebody solved this problem already)
tia,
Martin
The only mechanism I can think on to do what your looking for is to use a logger like log4net / Log4PostSharp to log details to a log file on the machine, this would give you details on usage for that particular client. You would have to create a custom attribute that you could decorate your methods with that would result in something being written out to the log file, otherwise your code would end up littered with code to implement the logging!
Have a look at this article too, it uses Log4PostSharp with AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) which would make the implementation of the logging much more cleaner (uses attributes).
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/log4postsharp-intro.aspx
You can find some if you google for the term "application analytics" instead of "feature tracking".
I have found the following products:
includeapp.com
Software Statistics Service
Dotfuscator for .NET, DashO for Java
FusionAnalytics
Flurry Analytics
OpenSpan Desktop Analytics
DeskMetrics
EQATEC Analytics
Rapidengines
I might say that I also plan to create such a product. When it will be Beta I will add it to the list.