How to tell on bootup if there is a connection, or pending connection?

[llanqui]

I have an AddOn that loads a bunch of data from external SQL database into my NT App.....and depending on if there is a connection or not I need to load different data.

On Startup...how can I tell if there is a Connection, either pending or connected?

Because the No Connected / Not Connecting state would load different data.

Thank you.

[llanqui]

this doesn't work to indicate no-connection

if (Connection.Connections == null)

this works for playback

if (Cbi.Connection.PlaybackConnection != null)

[bltdavid]

Good reading here and here.

Try something like,

if (Connection.Status == ConnectionStatus.Connected &&
    Connection.PriceStatus == ConnectionStatus.Connected)
    // you are fully connected
else
    // not fully connected

[bltdavid]

You might want to try using this.

The idea is that you would load your initial set of
data at startup (depending on connected or not),
just like you're doing now.

But when the ConnectStatusUpdate event handler
tells you that the connection is fully connected after
your startup, you know you can safely load the
connected set of data.

That is,
Whenever the event handler says you are fully connected,
then you clear your current data and (re)load the connected
data set from the database.

[llanqui]

That helps, thank you.