[Genius Live]

You should close the connection after you're done using it in the method, not before. If the Open method still causes the exception, after moving the call to the Close method, you have a problem with your connection string.
Maybe you can show us the connectionstring and all of the data access code you use

Or try this

كود :

If newConnection.State = ConnectionState.Open Then newConnection.Close()
newConnection.Open()