I have a weird situation here. My connection state is Open but once I assign the connection to oCommand.Connection, it says "Object reference not found".

Basically, the following logic assigns an already opened connection or opens it and assigns it after:

            ' If the connection is already opened
            If lConnectionIsAlreadyOpened Then
                    oCommand.Connection = oApp.aConnection(nConnectionString, 2)
            Else

                ' Open the connection
                loConnection = New OdbcConnection(oConnectionOpenManually.cConnectionString)

                ' Open the connection
                loConnection.Open()

                oCommand.Connection = loConnection
            End If

When I trace it, when the connection is not already opened, after loConnection.Open(), it says that the connection state is Open. However, it crashes on the next line saying the "Object reference not found". If it is already opened, what could cause it to generate this error?