Many years ago, in the dark ages of DTS I created a little app that would take two parameters and build a UDL file. This an some crafty VBScript allowed me to loop through a list of servers on the fly. I haven’t thought about this code in almost ten years when I came across John Paul Cooks’ blog post on using UDL files. I thought I’d just post up the code, it is basic but got the job done! I did clean it up a bit since it was written when .net 1.0 was all the rage. The secret sauce is writing the file encoded Unicode and doing binary writes to get all the little bits in the correct palace. the UDL file format is picky that way. Enjoy!
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
namespace CreateUDL
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string str2 = "";
string str3 = "";
try
{
str2 = args[0];
str3 = args[1];
}
catch
{
if (args.Length < 2)
{
Console.WriteLine("Not enough arguments!");
return;
}
}
str2 = str2 + str3 + ".udl";
if (str2.Length == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("must provide file name");
return;
}
if (str3.Length == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("must provide server name");
return;
}
else
{
try
{
FileStream output = new FileStream(str2, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(output);
writer.Write((short)(-257));
string s = "[oledb]\r\n";
byte[] bytes = new byte[(s.Length * 2) + 1];
bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(s);
writer.Write(bytes);
s = "; Everything after this line is an OLE DB initstring\r\n";
bytes = new byte[(s.Length * 2) + 1];
bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(s);
writer.Write(bytes);
s = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;"+
"Persist Security Info=False;"+
"Initial Catalog=master;Data Source=" + str3 + "\r\n";
bytes = new byte[(s.Length * 2) + 1];
bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(s);
writer.Write(bytes);
writer.Flush();
writer.Close();
writer = null;
output = null;
}
catch(Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
}
}
}
}
