Stan, thank you for this excellent tutorial. I knew a lot of it already but wish I had read this before I started adding variables to script task in SSIS, took my awhile to realize that the starting value never changes in the variables window only in memory.

In Lesson 5 you wrote ' (Add using System.Collections; to the namespace listing.) '. For Lesson 6 could you add '(Add using System.IO; to the namespace listing.)'? That could be confusing to a total newbie (me a year ago :-)).