When working with SSIS packages in Visual Studio, the designer will often show warnings on the design surface. If you hover over a component with a warning (or error), a tooltip will appear with the warning or message. However, this message invariable gets cut off because the tooltip only supports so much text.

In theory, you should be able to view the message in the Error List pane. But in my case, the message almost never shows. I’ve tried rebuilding the package/solution, clearing the solution cache, trying different versions of Visual Studio, trying different machines, but the result is always the same. If I’m lucky a message might show sporadically, but even then it’s likely to disappear as soon as I make a change to the package.

Is there anywhere else you can view these messages? I’ve tried looking through the Output pane, but I can’t find anything there either.