DataSource Controls :: Create A Class Like SqlHelper.cs?

string connectionString = (string)
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["ConnectionString"];
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("INSERT_PERSON",connection);
command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Name",SqlDbType.NVarChar,50));
command.Parameters["@Name"].Value = txtName.Text;
command.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Age",SqlDbType.NVarChar,10));
command.Parameters["@Age"].Value = txtAge.Text;
connection.Open();
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
connection.Close();

Above is my code.

I has more than 100 methods like this, so every time i'm opening the connection and close it, this will take too much of time, what i think is instead of this i would like to create the class for Connection open, that class will check whether the connection is closed or Broken then Open it(like SqlHelper.cs) so without big change on my methods, how to create that class and how to access that class from my methods.