Make SQLite connection fail if database is missing? (deleted/moved)

Question

I have the following method inside class DBConnection. I call the method like this: SQLiteConnection conn = DBConnection.OpenDB(); when I want to o

Answer 1

I haven't used SQLite but that is pretty bizarre behaviour to auto create a brand new database.

You could just adjust your try block to do a Select top 1 * From Table immediately after you open the connection, if it works, throw away the result and continue to return your conn object. If it fails, the exception handler should fire.