.net SqlConnection not being closed even when within a using { }

Question

Please help!

Background info

I have a WPF application which accesses a SQL Server 2005 database. The database is running locally on the machine the appl

Answer 1

Well thanks for the help chaps, it has been solved now..

Essentially I took elements of most of the answers above and implemented the DataContext constructor as above (I already had overloaded the constructors so it wasn't a big change).

// Variable for storing the connection passed to the constructor
private System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection _Connection;

public DataContext(System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection Connection) : base(Connection)
{
    // Only set the reference if the connection is Valid and Open during construction
    if (Connection != null)
    {
        if (Connection.State == System.Data.ConnectionState.Open)
        {
            _Connection = Connection;                    
        }
    }           
}

protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{        
    // Only try closing the connection if it was opened during construction    
    if (_Connection!= null)
    {
        _Connection.Close();
        _Connection.Dispose();
    }

    base.Dispose(disposing);
}

The reason for doing this rather than some of the suggestions above is that accessing this.Connection in the dispose method throws a ObjectDisposedException.

And the above works as well as I was hoping!