A wrapper around System.Data.SqlClient to make it less weird.

SqlHelper.cs

using System;

namespace System.Data.SqlClient {
	public class SqlHelper {
		readonly string connectionString;

		public SqlHelper(string connectionString) { this.connectionString = connectionString; }

		public string StringCommand (string commandString, Action<SqlParameterCollection> bindingCommand) {
			using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) {
				connection.Open();
				using (var command = connection.CreateCommand()) {
					bindingCommand(command.Parameters);
					command.CommandText = commandString;
					return command.ExecuteScalar().ToString();
				}
			}
		}

		public int CountCommand (string commandString, Action<SqlParameterCollection> bindingCommand) {
			using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) {
				connection.Open();
				using (var command = connection.CreateCommand()) {
					bindingCommand(command.Parameters);
					command.CommandText = commandString;
					return (int)command.ExecuteScalar();
				}
			}
		}

		public void ExecuteCommand (string commandString, Action<SqlParameterCollection> bindingCommand) {
			using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) {
				connection.Open();
				using (var command = connection.CreateCommand()) {
					bindingCommand(command.Parameters);
					command.CommandText = commandString;
					command.ExecuteNonQuery();
				}
			}
		}

		public void ExecuteReader (string commandString, Action<SqlParameterCollection> bindingCommand, Action<SqlDataReader> readingAction) {
			using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString)) {
				connection.Open();
				using (var command = connection.CreateCommand()) {
					bindingCommand(command.Parameters);
					command.CommandText = commandString;
					using (var rdr = command.ExecuteReader()) {
						while (rdr.Read()) readingAction(rdr);
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}