Good morning,



I am revisiting a topic that may have been touched on before (I did search for it, but could not find any direct forum entries). I apologize if I am re-walking on some old ground.



I'd like to have a mechanism to alert the user that a database connection has been lost or regained. Is it possible to get this information from the DataLayer? Or, do I need to create my own test (perhaps in its own thread?) and bubble up the response to the currently running application thread? Ideally, I prefer a graceful message to the end-user that the connection to the database is down and all data access functionality has been temporarily stopped. After the connection is reestablished, the system would generate a message to the end-user that the connection is back online and work can continue normally. For a similar functionality, consider the message Outlook provides when the Exchange server cannot be communicated with.



Thanks!

Bill