when to close the connection and transaction?

hi,

my question is about the right place where I should close a connection and commit/rellback a transaction

a page look like this
...
try
dim conn as sqlclient.sqlconnection(...)
conn.open()
... define a transaction
... do database operations with the connection & transaction
... end of the operations
... commit the transaction
conn.close()

catch ex as exception
...if I try to rolback & close the transaction, it seems that those are not available here

finally
...same (connection seems to not be available here)
end try

did I close the connection in the reght place?
what is happening when something fail: when the connection will be closed, and when I can rollback the transaction?

thank you,

svatasoiu

The conn is being dimmed inside the scope of the try block and as such isn't available within the catch. Don't ask me why but that's what I've observed...

So you should be OK by doing the Dim before the try and you could always do the close in the "finally" while leaving the rollback and and commit in the catch and try.

thank you for your quick answer.

you are right, I did not realized that by dim-ing in the try block, I restrict the availability of the connection