New Post: EF6 support for ASP.NET WebForms EntityDataSource

I am not sure if this is related to this thread, but I just created a simple EF6 project and am running into problems trying to get an ObjectContext out of a dbContext. I need to do this in order to open and close the database as I have been doing with EF5 as follows:

while (((IObjectContextAdapter)dbContext).ObjectContext.Connection.State.ToString() != "Open")

    ((IObjectContextAdapter)dbContext).ObjectContext.Connection.Open();

and

try

  {
    ((IObjectContextAdapter)dbContext).ObjectContext.Connection.Close();
  }
  finally
  {
    ((IObjectContextAdapter)dbContext).ObjectContext.Connection.Dispose();
  }

How can I do it? Alternately, is there a different recommended method to accomplish this now?

I am also using the ObjectContext to execute SQL. What is the recommended method to do this with EF6?

Thanks
Manish