Andy Leonard takes us through a new feature in Visual Studio:
A new feature in version 3.9 of the Visual Studio 2019 SSIS extension is “skip package validation.” I’ve tested the functionality and it works well. Here’s how you set it up:
Click through to see how easy it is to enable. I’d imagine that this would work really well when dealing with dynamic packages where connection details aren’t available until runtime. Waiting for validation to fail to connect to a remote data source (on the UI thread!) was always annoying.