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<dl><dt class="popupbubble"><i>connection</i></dt> <dd class="popupbubble">The connection to open.</dd></dl> </div> <div id="connectionWasAlreadyOpen_box" class="dxpopupbubble"> <dl><dt class="popupbubble"><i>connectionWasAlreadyOpen</i></dt> <dd class="popupbubble">True if the connection was already open.</dd></dl> </div> </div> <div id="pagebody" valign="bottom"> <a name="topBookmark"></a> <div id="mainbody"> <div id="allHistory" class="saveHistory" onsave="saveAll()" onload="loadAll()"> </div> For internal use only. <h1 class="heading"><span class="expandcollapse" tabindex="0"><img id="syntaxToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="dotnetimages/collapse.gif">Syntax</span></h1><div id="syntaxSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection"><div class="LanguageSpecific" id="Syntax_VB"><table class="syntaxtable" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><th>Visual Basic (Declaration)</th><th> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><pre>Public Shared Function OpenConnectionSafely( _ ByVal <i><a class="parameter" id="connection" href="#" onclick="javascript:showParamBox(event);">connection</a></i> As <a href="#" onclick="javascript:navigateToHelp2Keyword('frlrfSystemDataIDbConnectionClassTopic','System.Data.IDbConnection')">IDbConnection</a>, _ ByRef <i><a class="parameter" id="connectionWasAlreadyOpen" href="#" onclick="javascript:showParamBox(event);">connectionWasAlreadyOpen</a></i> As <a href="#" onclick="javascript:navigateToHelp2Keyword('frlrfSystemBooleanClassTopic','System.Boolean')">Boolean</a> _ ) As <a href="#" onclick="javascript:navigateToHelp2Keyword('frlrfSystemBooleanClassTopic','System.Boolean')">Boolean</a></pre></td></tr></table></div> <div class="LanguageSpecific" id="Syntax_CS"><table class="syntaxtable" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><th>C#</th><th> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><pre>public static <a href="#" onclick="javascript:navigateToHelp2Keyword('frlrfSystemBooleanClassTopic','System.Boolean')">bool</a> OpenConnectionSafely( <a href="#" onclick="javascript:navigateToHelp2Keyword('frlrfSystemDataIDbConnectionClassTopic','System.Data.IDbConnection')">IDbConnection</a> <i><a class="parameter" id="connection" href="#" onclick="javascript:showParamBox(event);">connection</a></i>, out <a href="#" onclick="javascript:navigateToHelp2Keyword('frlrfSystemBooleanClassTopic','System.Boolean')">bool</a> <i><a class="parameter" id="connectionWasAlreadyOpen" href="#" onclick="javascript:showParamBox(event);">connectionWasAlreadyOpen</a></i> )</pre></td></tr></table></div> <h4 class="dxh4">Parameters</h4><dl><dt><i>connection</i></dt> <dd>The connection to open.</dd><dt><i>connectionWasAlreadyOpen</i></dt> <dd>True if the connection was already open.</dd></dl> <h4 class="dxh4">Return Value</h4>True if the connection is open upon return.</div> <a name="exampleBookmark"></a> <a 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