How can I change the table adapter's command timeout

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2008 with C#.

I have a .xsd file and it has a table adapter. I want to change the table adapter's command timeout.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

With some small modifications csl's idea works great.

partial class FooTableAdapter
{
  /**
   * <summary>
   * Set timeout in seconds for Select statements.
   * </summary>
   */
  public int SelectCommandTimeout
  {
    set
    {
            for (int i = 0; i < this.CommandCollection.Length; i++)
                if (this.CommandCollection[i] != null)
                 this.CommandCollection[i].CommandTimeout = value;
    }
  }
}

To use it, just set this.FooTableAdapter.CommandTimeout = 60; somewhere before the this.FooTableAdapter.Fill();

---

If you need to change the timeout on a lot of table adapters, you could create a generic extension method and have it use reflection to change the timeout.

/// <summary>
/// Set the Select command timeout for a Table Adapter
/// </summary>
public static void TableAdapterCommandTimeout<T>(this T TableAdapter, int CommandTimeout) where T : global::System.ComponentModel.Component
{                
    foreach (var c in typeof(T).GetProperty("CommandCollection", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.GetProperty | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(TableAdapter, null) as System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand[])
        c.CommandTimeout = CommandTimeout;
}

Usage:

this.FooTableAdapter.TableAdapterCommandTimeout(60);
this.FooTableAdapter.Fill(...);

This is a little slower. And there is the possibility of an error if you use it on the wrong type of object. (As far as I know, there is no "TableAdapter" class that you could limit it to.)