I'm in the process of designing some web services, and they'll speak to a database through an assembly that I'll also be writing. I've learned from my experience in other database-backed web development environments that it's generally a good idea to reuse one connection to the database rather than spawning a new one for every request. I haven't been able to find anything documenting how to enable this for .NET data providers. I have a few ideas of how to implement it using things like a Unix socket (this code will only run on a Unix system, so no need to worry about lack of portability), but I'd like some nice, simple method call that I can use which will handle the magic for me. Thanks in advance for any information.
Best Regards, Christopher Nehren P.S.: Thanks a million, million times for Mono. I have been obsessing over it for at least three months now. :) -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson If you ask the wrong questions, you get answers like "42" and "God". Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list