Hi,
I was wondering if there's any method to access or import catalog environments during design.
In package deployment mode, we used an XML config file. The XML file was different on each server and contained about 20 different connection strings and other values. If you opened the package on the server (or just changed the XML file on your PC) and executed it through the GUI, it would get the values from that XML file.
Now with project deployment mode, I don't set the environment variables (which overwrite the project parameters) until the project is deployed. So I can't just open the solution, run it from the designer and have it pick up the necessary parameters. I need to manually change the project parameters to values that match the environment I want.
So I'm hoping there is some way around this, by importing the environment into project parameters in the designer or something (thought maybe that would be a feature of BIDS Helper but doesn't seem to be the case). Any ideas, or am I out of luck?
Thanks,
Scott