Hello.... I am trying to understand this parameter "Connection LifeTime" in the connection string. The definition says "Connection Lifetime - When a connection is returned to the pool, its creation time is compared with the current time, and the connection is destroyed if that time span (in seconds) exceeds the value specified by Connection Lifetime. A value of zero (0) causes pooled connections to have the maximum connection timeout. " Connection Lifetime - if I set the value for this to be 5 secs, does it mean that after I close my connection, and gets returned to the pool, and if the difference of the creation time and the returned time is greater than 5 secs, will the connection be available for use immediately, from the connection pool? Or do I loose this connection from the pool? Or am I reading it incorrectly? What is the maximum connection timeout? Please advice... Thank You

I have my application migrated to VS2005 from VS2003, and the database is on MS SQL 2005. I have couple of pages that have dynamic datagrids. When I run the application from within VS, it runs faster, loads the dynamic grid page faster than it does when I run outside of VS environment. What causes it to run slower, outside the VS environment? How can I improve performance? Thank You Hashok :doh: