Question : multiple connections per user

When displaying data on a web-page I open a new database connection each time I use it.
But this can result in many connections per page. Is there a way to open a connection at the beginning of the page and close it again when the page is finished?
or should I make 1 connection per session?

now I use:
Imports System.Data
Imports MySql.Data.MySqlClient

Dim connString As String = "server=localhost; user id=xxx; password=xxx; database=xxx; pooling=false;"
Dim con = New MySqlConnection(connString)
con.Open()
Dim query As String = "query string here"
Dim ds = New DataSet()
Dim da = New MySqlDataAdapter(query, con)
da.Fill(ds)
//code here//
ds.Dispose()
da.Dispose()
con.Close()
con.Dispose()

Answer : multiple connections per user

There is a option called connection pooling, check this link

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1450984/storing-database-connections-in-session-in-a-small-scale-webapp