title: Debug SSIS package with parameters/ Arguments
body: <p>I'm hopeful one of you guys can help me with the following question. </p>
  
  <p>Question: 
  Is it possible to pass command line arguments to a package when running it from within Visual Studio/BIDS? </p>
  
  <p>I want to set the value of a variable via the command line, and found that you can to this in DtExec with the "/set \Package.Variables[...].Value;..." syntax. 
  According to the docs, you should be able to pass the same argument via the <strong>'CmdLineArguments'</strong> property in the 'Properties' dialog of an SSIS project in VS </p>
  
  <p><ol>
  <li>Right click on your project (make sure you do this on project not package)</li>
  <li>hit properties </li>
  <li>and go down to your debugging section</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>(CmdLineArguments will Run the package with the specified command-line arguments, but unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work (even though the exact same argument does work when running the package externally with DtExec or with DtExecUI)</li>
    </ol>
    This makes debugging this package for me a living nightmare... :-/
    I found a post on MSDN claiming this doesn't work in the IDE.... 
    Does anybody have any experience with this?
    Is this a bug? 
    Any workarounds?</p>
  </blockquote>