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

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