I would like to develop a SSIS package where in there are 'X' number of input data sources like flat files, MS Access mdb files etc. The details about the number of input data sources, type of each data sources, the physical path of the data file, name os database server, username for the database server, password for the database server etc has to come from the configuration file.
Can anyone help on this ?
While you can use configurations to set things like database connections, user names, etc, SSIS packages can't change the metadata used in a dataflow at runtime. They aren't self-modifying. If you are trying to build a "generic" package that can handle any data dynamically, you will need to build an application that creates the package on the fly. SSIS has a good API, so this is certainly in the realm of possiblity, but it is still a lot of work.