Question

I have the following sniplet of a stored procedure in SQL Server

    Create PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_Genpwd] 
    @pass varchar(8) OUTPUT
    AS
    BEGIN

In my c# code, how do I get the output from the stored proc throught the data context?

    var pwd = db.usp_Genpwd(..)

Intellisense says to put ref string pass in the paranthesis but when I do the following:

    var pwd = db.usp_Genpwd(ref string pass);

I get a invalid arguments error

I am not sure what goes in the paranthesis as I am outputting a value from the stored proc.

Answer 1

A ref parameter means a reference to a variable or field.

In order to call a function that takes a ref parameter, you need to pass a variable or field with the ref keyword:

string v = null;
var pwd = db.usp_Genpwd(ref v);