How to handle SQL Query CommandTimeout in C# 2.0 - c#-2.0

Question

I have got below code in c#.
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=MANOJ-PC\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=master;Integrated Security=False;User Id=sa;Password=Manoj;");
conn.Open();
if (conn != null)
{
//create command
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("dbo.GETTridionLinkData", conn);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#PageID", "637518");
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.CommandTimeout = 500;
StringBuilder sbXML = new StringBuilder();
//Adding Root node
sbXML.Append("<TridionLinks>");
//Reading all the values of Stored procedure return
using (XmlReader reader = cmd.ExecuteXmlReader())
{
while (reader.Read())
{
sbXML.Append(reader.ReadOuterXml().Replace("//", "/"));
}
}
//Closing the root node tag
sbXML.Append("</TridionLinks>");
XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
//Loading string xml in XML Document
xDoc.LoadXml(sbXML.ToString());
}
In above code you can see that, I have set the cmd.CommandTimeout = 500;, now I want to give user an error message if the timeout is more than this or you can say database is down.
Please suggest!!

Answer 1

Please refer to
How to catch SQLServer timeout exceptions
The question has already been answered..
To improve coding, you can use
try{
using (sqlconnection Conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=MANOJ-PC\\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=master;Integrated Security=False;User Id=sa;Password=Manoj;"){
...
}
}catch(sqlException ex){
if (ex.Number == -2) {
//return your message to the control or display the error
}
}
well just an example..