Hitting "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used" error - winforms

Question

I am trying to write a Windows Form program on top of .NET 4.0 and accessing Microsoft Access Database. I can read and write with no problem but sometimes, I get this error:
COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used.
I tried to call this method (GetIDBasedonTeamName) with different inputs twice (on the same thread). The second time this is run, I got that error.
OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection();
OleDbConnection mDB = new OleDbConnection();
OleDbCommand comm = new OleDbCommand();
OleDbCommand cmd;
OleDbDataReader dr;
public void OpenConnection(string name) // always call this method first in other methods to initialise connection
{
conn.ConnectionString = "Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data source="
+ Application.StartupPath + "\\AppData\\" + name + ".mdb;";
conn.Open();
comm.Connection = conn;
comm.Parameters.Clear();
}
public string GetIDBasedonTeamName(string teamName)
{
string toReturn = "";
try
{
OpenConnection("form");
comm.CommandText = "Select ID from TeamDetails WHERE TeamName=#teamName";
comm.Parameters.AddWithValue("TeamName", teamName);
dr = comm.ExecuteReader();
while (dr.Read())
{
toReturn = dr[0].ToString();
}
}
catch (OleDbException e)
{
string err = e.Message.ToString();
return null;
}
finally
{
}
conn.Close();
dr.Close();
return toReturn;
}
Exception happened on dr = comm.ExecuteReader();.
The method that was calling this method have this 2 lines inside:
InfoConfig.team1id = Convert.ToInt32(dbm.GetIDBasedonTeamName(cbxTeam1.Text));
InfoConfig.team2id = Convert.ToInt32(dbm.GetIDBasedonTeamName(cbxTeam2.Text));
What could be the cause? I read around and they mentioned not to use different threads but it is the same thread here.
Thanks,
Guo Hong

Answer 1

Building on Martin Liversage's answer:
public string GetIDBasedonTeamName(string teamName) {
var connString = "Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data source="
+ Application.StartupPath + "\\AppData\\" + name + ".mdb;";
using (var conn = new OleDbConnection(connString)) {
conn.Open();
using (var cmd = conn.CreateCommand()) {
cmd.CommandText="Select ID from TeamDetails WHERE TeamName = #teamName";
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("TeamName", teamName);
using (var rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader()) {
if (rdr.Read()) {
return (string)rdr["TeamName"];
}
//if no valid results will return null
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

Instead of creating the objects only once and storing them in fields in your class you should create, use and close the objects in your method. It is probably the Close you call in the end the method that releases the underlying COM objects giving you the exception on the second call.