Simple way to programmatically get all stored procedures

Question

Is there a way to get stored procedures from a SQL Server 2005 Express database using C#? I would like to export all of this data in the same manner that you can script it o

Answer 1

You can use SMO for that. First of all, add references to these assemblies to your project:

• Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo
• Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo
• Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum

They are located in the GAC (browse to C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder).

Use the following code as an example of scripting stored procedures:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo;

class Program
{
   static void Main(string[] args)
   {
      Server server = new Server(@".\SQLEXPRESS");
      Database db = server.Databases["Northwind"];
      List list = new List();
      DataTable dataTable = db.EnumObjects(DatabaseObjectTypes.StoredProcedure);
      foreach (DataRow row in dataTable.Rows)
      {
         string sSchema = (string)row["Schema"];
         if (sSchema == "sys" || sSchema == "INFORMATION_SCHEMA")
            continue;
         StoredProcedure sp = (StoredProcedure)server.GetSmoObject(
            new Urn((string)row["Urn"]));
         if (!sp.IsSystemObject)
            list.Add(sp);
      }
      Scripter scripter = new Scripter();
      scripter.Server = server;
      scripter.Options.IncludeHeaders = true;
      scripter.Options.SchemaQualify = true;
      scripter.Options.ToFileOnly = true;
      scripter.Options.FileName = @"C:\StoredProcedures.sql";
      scripter.Script(list.ToArray());
   }
}

See also: SQL Server: SMO Scripting Basics.