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Developing a Custom ForEach Enumerator

Integration Services uses foreach enumerators to iterate over the items in a collection and perform the same tasks for each element. Integration Services includes a variety of foreach enumerators that support the most commonly used collections, such as all the files in a folder, all the tables in a database, or all the elements of a list stored in a package variable. If the foreach enumerators and collections that are provided do not entirely meet your requirements, you can create a custom foreach enumerator.

To create a custom foreach enumerator, you have to create a class that inherits from the ForEachEnumerator base class, apply the DtsForEachEnumeratorAttribute attribute to your new class, and override the important methods and properties of the base class, including the GetEnumerator method.

In This Section

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

Information Common to all Custom Objects

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

Information about Other Custom Objects

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

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