Alex,

The problem with a lot of the books out there (especially the early ones from 3 years ago, which is when I was doing most of my reading) is that the examples are pretty bad. By "bad" I mean that they are often too simplistic (especially when they show direct Data Access from a Form ... that's one of my pet peeves!) Simple examples are ok to get a point across, but then the ideas should be expanded upon and they seldom are. Maybe it's gotten better since then, I don't know.

~~Bonnie



>>You can return the connection object from your connect method:
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>>public SqlConnection ConnectToSqlServer()
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>>~~Bonnie
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>That works!
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>I had not made the connection (pun intended) when reading about scope and declaring variables and fields that you can define types other than the standard book samples: int, string, etc.
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>Works like a charm.