C# SQLConnection pooling

Question

Can anyone brief me how to do Connection Pooling in ADO.Net, I do need to connect to 3 separate databases. 2 of them are in same server and the other in a separate one.

Answer 1

as long as you are strict about disposing your connections, the default (for sql-server at least) is that it will just work automatically. In your example you could well only have 3 underlying connections (one per connection string).

But always ensure your connections are disposed, ideally with using:

using(var conn = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) {
    // use conn
}

then it is released back to the pool (for re-use when the same connection-string is seen next) even when an exception is thrown.

To disable pooling (if you choose), include Pooling=false; in the connection-string.