dtsconfig file is binary?

Hello all,

I'm trying to easily change a value in 80 ssis configuration files from "localhost" to "myservername". I downloaded WinGrep to do this, but it's balking on some of the files, saying that they are binary files.

Does anyone know how to make the *.dtsconfig files NOT binary in SSIS?

Any suggestions GREATLY appreciated.

I won't go into the reason I have my servername in 80 places...

Andy

The .dtsconfig files are XML files - i.e. mostly text, but sometimes you need to be careful with the encoding (typically utf-8) to keep it valid XML. I have no experience with WinGrep, or why it thinks it is "binary". I would suggest using XML-aware tools to modify .dtsconfig.|||

Thanks for the tip Michael. Do you know if notepad is XML-aware? Because that's the only tool I used to edit them.

Also, I tried just creating a clean .dtsconfig file from the package configurations wizard and then pointing WinGrep at that file and I got the same thing, saying it was binary. I didn't modify it at all outside of the wizard.

|||The .dtsConfig file is a text file, in UTF-8 encoding. If you don't configure any localized (non-English) properties, UTF-8 is identical to ASCII encoding - in that case any text processor can work with it. Notepad can typically detect the encoding correctly even if you have non-English properties, so it should be OK in any case.

Again, I have no idea why WinGrep thinks it is binary, maybe because it is just one line.|||

Hi Michael,

You hit the nail on the head with that last sentence. I just put a carriage return in the file so it was more than 1 line and now WinGrep doesn't think it's binary anymore. Weird. Anyway to make it so that a configuration file is created on more than 1 line?

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Ok, so in order to make it so it's not just 1 line, in BI studio, with your config file open in then center pane and your cursor inside the file, go to Edit/Advanced/Format Document. This will format the document better as well as put it on more than 1 line. Now WinGrep has no problem.