How to reuse code that reopens connection?

Question

Our production server kills inactive connections, so our API needs to restore them when they are needed. The following code works, but it is very repetitive:

Answer 1

private const int MaxRetryCount = 3;

        public static SqlDataReader RestoreConnectionAndExecuteReader(SqlCommand command)
        {
            return RestoreConnectionAndExecuteQueryHelper(command, true);
        }

        public static void RestoreConnectionAndExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand command)
        {
            RestoreConnectionAndExecuteQueryHelper(command, false);
        }

        private static SqlDataReader RestoreConnectionAndExecuteQueryHelper(SqlCommand command, bool returnReader)
        {
            var retryCount = 0;
            while (retryCount++ < MaxRetryCount)
            {
                try
                {
                    if (command.Connection.State == ConnectionState.Closed)
                        command.Connection.Open();
                    if (returnReader)
                    {
                        return command.ExecuteReader();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        command.ExecuteNonQuery();
                        return null;
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    if (!e.Message.ToLower().Contains("transport-level error has occurred"))
                    {
                        throw;
                    }
                }
            }
            throw new Exception("Failed to restore connection for command:" + command.CommandText);
        }