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 Messages tab in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. What I particularly have it mind is to read the output of SET STATISTICS TIME ON. It appears that SqlDataReader does not offer anything in this matter.

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.