[Mono-list] Questions about coding style

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Just in case no-one else spots it, you'll need a "static" keyword on 
that GetConnection() declaration, otherwise you have to create an 
instance to get a reference to the private static variable, which is 
just odd :)



On 20/08/12 20:45, James Wright wrote:
>
>   I'd create ConnectionFactory class, although feel free to ignore me,
> just thinking off the top of my head! :-)
>
> public class ConnectionFactory
> {
>      private static MySqlConnection _connection;
>      public MySqlConnection GetConnection()
>      {
>          if (_connection == null)
>          {
>              _connection = new MySqlConnection();
>          }
>          return _connection;
>      }
> }
>
>
>
> On 20/08/2012 20:28, Philippe Grohrock wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply already and I'm sorry, I should've added the
>> lines of code.
>> 	static class GlobalVariables
>> 	{
>> 		public static MySqlConnection connection = new connection();
>> 	}
>> This way the whole program has access to it and can modify/query the
>> DB when needed (this is what I meant with global). At the moment I
>> have 2 of my windows using that connection, but there might be more in
>> the future. So is this a bad way of doing it? Would it be better to
>> have the connection be internal static? Should I declare it once after
>> the start of the program and then hand it over to the windows? I think
>> I also need to open a new topic about assemblies ;)
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