Hi Stephen Sounds like a possibility. Any pointers into how I would go about this ?
Regards Iain On Sep 3, 1:59 pm, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Iain <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All > > > I hope someone can help as I am stumped. > > > Usuing Visual Studio 2008, C#, Dot Net Level 3.5 to create a web page > > application. > > > The following is in a button.click event. > > > The task I have been given is to retrieve a dataset from a database (a > > payment list). > > This dataset is of indeterminate size (ie it will contain anything > > from 1 to hundreds of > > records). I have to take the data and reformat the records into a > > seperate text file, > > each text file containing no more than 50 records. So, in essence, if > > I have a dataset > > of 125 records I will end up with 3 text files, 2 containing 50 > > records and 1 containing > > 25 records. These files are to be stored on the user's desktop for > > further processing. > > > After the every 50 records I am trying to save a file to the desktop. > > I want to assign > > a different name to the file each time > > > ie > > > filename-1.txt (containing maximum 50 records) > > filename-2.txt (containing maximum 50 records) > > filename-3.txt (containing the residue) > > ------------------- > > Why not combine all the text files in memory to a zip stream and make > a single compressed file instead? I have to do same thing with pdf > documents instead of with .txt fiels but it works great. Better is > less writing a stream. > > HTH > > -- > Stephen Russell > > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > CIMSgts > > 901.246-0159 cell
