How to: Add a New User-Defined Message in Visual Basic .NET

This section describes how to create a user-defined message in Visual Basic .NET.

The code example demonstrates how to create a user-defined message with an ID greater than 5000.

Adding user-defined messages

  1. Start Visual Studio 2005.

  2. From the File menu, select New Project. The New Project dialog box appears.

  3. In the Project Types pane, select Visual Basic. In the Templates pane, select Console Application.

  4. (Optional) In the Name box, type the name of the new application.

  5. Click OK to load the Visual Basic console application template.

  6. On the Project menu, select Add Reference item. The Add Reference dialog box appears. Select Browse and locate the SMO assemblies in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\SDK\Assemblies folder. Select the following files:

    Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo.dll

    Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll

    Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlEnum.dll

    Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum.dll

  7. On the View menu, click Code.-Or-Select the Module1.vb window to display the code window.

  8. In the code, before any declarations, type the following Imports statements to qualify the types in the SMO namespace:

    Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
    Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common
    
  9. Insert the code that follows this procedure into the main program.

  10. Run and build the application.

Example

Dim mysrv As Server
mysrv = New Server
Dim udm As UserDefinedMessage
udm = New UserDefinedMessage(mysrv, 50003, "us_english", 16, "Test message")
udm.Create()

See Also

Concepts

Using Messages

Help and Information

Getting SQL Server 2005 Assistance