How can I get the number of records affected by a stored procedure?

Question

For INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE SQL statements executed directly against the database, most database providers return the count of rows

Answer 1

Turns out for me that SET NOCOUNT ON was set in the stored procedure script (by default on SQL Server Management Studio) and SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); always returned -1.

I just set it off: SET NOCOUNT OFF without needing to use @@ROWCOUNT.

More details found here : SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() returns -1 when doing Insert / Update / Delete