title: Entity Framework Reusing Connection
body: <p>in a using block for a connection to the entities,</p>
  
  <p>How am I to reuse the connection when calling another method?</p>
  
  <p>so I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>using (SampleEntities entities = new SampleEntities()) {
      entities.Connection.Open();
      SomeMethod();
  
      ...
  }
  
  
  void SomeMethod() {
     using (SampleEntities entities = new SampleEntities())
     {
        // I want to be able to use the existing connection before the method call, any ideas?
     }
  
  }
  </code></pre>