I convinced my boss to license the DevExpress Components somewhen in the past because I was really convinced of them myself. I must remind myself to read more of the personal blog postings of the DX Developers. Often they are talking about some features you never realized where so easy to implement, even if you’re working with the components on a daily basis.

In this article Paul Kimmel talks about how easy it is to implement a sort of ObjectState dumper with the help of the Property Grid Control that gives you a sort of administrative view on your objects. Need to think of that when working on my next WinForms application…

I’m just trying to configure a custom logging mechanism for my SSIS packages and had some problems with the location and structure of the dbo.sysssislog table which is automagically created by the Integration Services (if you happen to use a integrated security database connection; else you need to grant CREATE rights to the corresponding database user). While googling I found some helpful tips by Joe The Business Intelligence Guy:

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