Is it necessary to dispose SqlConnection as well as SqlCommand?

Question

Is it necessary to separately dispose of a SqlConnection as well as a SqlCommand?

I\'m doing some maintenance work on an application and found the following code:

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Answer 1

Yes, you will have to dispose (of) the connection separately. You can also see this in the source code: SqlCommand.Dispose() does not close or dispose the connection it uses (by the way, that would be bad anyway as you could not execute multiple commands with the same connection).