Business Intelligence Studio Issue for Script Task

[Goodie666]

Hi there,

I'm not sure this is the right place for this but I haven't found a forum that seems to be better suited for this. If there is, please let me know and sorry for the noise.

I'm trying to design a simple Script Task in a Data Flow for which I need classes that are in the System.Core.Dll assembly. Problem is, when I want to add the reference to it from BIDS, I cannot, it's just not there.

Funny things is that I have VB.net installed from VSExpress 2005 on the same machine and there, I can add references to that assembly without any problem. It's actually included by default...

So my question is what do I need to do to have access to it in BIDS? I don't really understand... If an assembly is registered, it should be available everywhere . This is starting to drive me nuts because I need to use the new TimeZoneInfo class for my task and TimeZone from the old System.dll won't cut it.

Many thanks,

Greg

 

[NathanGriffiths]

Hi Greg,

I'm not sure, but it might be because System.Core.Dll is part of .Net Framework 3.5, and BIDS 2005 uses .Net Framework 2.0

cheers, Nathan

 

[Goodie666]

Hi,

Yes that's what I figured as well after a while. Thing is, I don't understand how an IDE can be restricted to a certain version of the API... If the assemblies are properly put together you should be able to make calls for a 3.5 assembly from your 2.0 environment with a reference to the component...

Oh well, that just kinda killed it for me
Regards,

greg