Jason,

Just like in IT there is *most* of the time a solution that suits the problem. In this case, although the desired result is to *run* a package remotely, I have a couple of points that I wish to raise. One is that there is no transparency in this method. That is, if the package fails, how does one extrapolate the point in the package that failed? Also, how does one manipulate the variable assignments in the packages, both before and after the process has run in order to both reuse packages by reassigning them new variable values etc. Also, if we look at this process in a production environment, are we getting enough bang for our buck?

I was faced with the issue of having to run packages from an ASP.NET 2.0 application and required that there was total transparency on error handling and variable manipulation, as well as being aware of the security risks associated with a production environment when implementing procedures that execute on demand transactions against SQL Server, so I chose a different method.

The method I chose was to ask a fellow collegue to create me a WCF web/windows service that sits on the SQL server running SSIS. This WCF application exposes objects that can be manipulated to run a package, and, at any time, expose variables [via packagevariable() array object], errors etc [basically the ssis object model] to allow me to set variables in the package, run the package, extrapolate success and failure, and evaluate the values of variables following execution.

I hope that this adds resolve to this jigsaw puzzle in a more flavourable way.

But as I say at the begining of this post, the solution should fit the problem ...

Thanks, Nick.