June 12, 2012 at 8:49 am
thanks for the question - cheers
June 13, 2012 at 8:55 am
Interesting question. And straightforward.
I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.
Tom
June 13, 2012 at 11:23 am
L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)
Interesting question. And straightforward.I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.
.xlsx and .pptx are also just .zip files 🙂
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June 13, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Koen Verbeeck (6/13/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)
Interesting question. And straightforward.I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.
.xlsx and .pptx are also just .zip files 🙂
Do you mean that .ispac is just another utensil in the openxml kitchen sink? 😉
I thought it was just some files with pre-existing file (non-xml) formats zipped together, but could be horribly wrong there. :ermm:
Tom
June 14, 2012 at 12:01 am
L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (6/13/2012)
L' Eomot Inversé (6/13/2012)
Interesting question. And straightforward.I guess calling it a .ispac file instead of a .zip file makes sense if you want to know from the extension which if your zip files contain ssis packages and which don't. But I'm not convinced that using a new extension for what is a after all vey well known and popular format just to gain that was sensible on MS's part.
.xlsx and .pptx are also just .zip files 🙂
Do you mean that .ispac is just another utensil in the openxml kitchen sink? 😉
I thought it was just some files with pre-existing file (non-xml) formats zipped together, but could be horribly wrong there. :ermm:
It's not that bad 😀
Basically it's all the .dtsx files (the packages) together with a small number of XML files. The XML files contain information about project parameters and shared connection managers, so they are normally really small.
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August 9, 2012 at 8:40 am
Interesting question!
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