Protean

As the SSIS send mail component doesn’t have an option to send html formatted messages, I thought it would help to post some code that implements the system.web.mail namespace.

Considering that sending messages is quite a regular task for any organisation, it might even be worth creating this as a standalone package and calling it each time you need to send a mail. Or even better still, writing a custom component instead.

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If you are trying to execute some Jet SQL DDL like CREATE TABLE or DROP TABLE against an Excel workbook and you get this message:

Executing the query “DROP TABLE [Sheet1];” failed with the following error: “Cannot modify the design of table ‘Sheet1′. It is in a read-only database.”.

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