Access to SQL Server messages via ADO.NET

Question

Is it possible to access the SQL Server \"by-product messages\" via ADO.NET? Due to the lack of words, by \"by-product messages\" I mean the output which appears in the Mess

Answer 1

Yes, there's an event on the SqlConnection class called SqlInfoMessage, which you can hook into:

SqlConnection _con = 
   new SqlConnection("server=.;database=Northwind;integrated Security=SSPI;");

_con.InfoMessage += new SqlInfoMessageEventHandler(InfoMessageHandler);

The event handler will look like this:

static void InfoMessageHandler(object sender, SqlInfoMessageEventArgs e)
{
    string myMsg = e.Message;            
}

The e.Message is the message printed out to the message window in SQL Server Management Studio.