title: sharing a database connection between applications in c#
body: <p>I was was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to have multiple applications share the same database connection</p>
  
  <p>e.g if I have an application which opens a connection to a database
  then I start another application which needs to connect to the same database - so instead of having 2 connections open, I use the connection from the first app which is already open
  thereby only having one connection open</p>
  
  <p>the reason I am asking this is because I am developing a system which is built from seperate exe's instead of one big one - but they all access the same database</p>
  
  <p>any help would be appreciated</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>