Get column names/types returned from a stored procedure

Question

Is there a way via metadata (Information_Schema, perhaps?) to get a list of the columns a sproc will return? I\'m trying to automate some code generation and that would help

Answer 1

I just ran Profiler to see how Visual Studio does this for the strongly typed dataset drag and drop.

This is the code it sent.

 SET NO_BROWSETABLE ON; 
 SET FMTONLY ON;

exec dbo.aspnet_Roles_GetAllRoles @ApplicationName=NULL

So I presume there might not be any "more official" way of doing it.

Obviously you would need to bear in mind that a single stored procedure might return multiple result sets or different result sets dependant on the parameters passed.

For people on 2012+ another approach might be to use sp_describe_first_result_set