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

Thank you for the response above. I just did a little experiment and found a little unexpected glitch (a bug?) when reading messages (in this case produced by SET STATISTICS TIME ON) from a multi-recordset result. As indicated below, one has to call NextResult even after the last resultset in order to get the last message. This is not needed in the case of a single recordset result.

using System;
using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace TimingTest
{
    class Program
    {

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("some_conn_str");
            conn.Open();

            conn.InfoMessage += new SqlInfoMessageEventHandler(Message);

            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("some_sp", conn);
            cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;

            SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

            while (rdr.Read()) { };

            rdr.NextResult();

            while (rdr.Read()) { };

            // this is needed to print the second message
            rdr.NextResult();

            rdr.Close();

            conn.Close();

        }

        static void Message(object sender, SqlInfoMessageEventArgs e)
        {
            Console.Out.WriteLine(e.Message);
        }

    }
}