About two different methods to use a transaction for SQLite in C#

I found two different ways to use a transaction from searching the internet.

The first one is using the helper class SqliteTransaction like below.

SqliteTransaction dbTrans = dbconn.BeginTransaction();
dbCmd.Transaction = dbTrans;

try {
    dbCmd.CommandText = "insert into myTable(name, age) values('John', 15)";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbCmd.CommandText = "insert into myTable(name, age) values('Dave', 23)";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbCmd.CommandText = "insert into myTable(name, age) values('Bob', 31)";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbTrans.Commit();
}
catch(Exception e) {
    dbTrans.Rollback();
    dbTrans.Dispose();

    dbCmd.Dispose();
    dbConn.Close();
    return;
}

dbTrans.Dispose();
dbCmd.Transaction = null;

The other one is just putting SQLite commands directly like this.

dbCmd.CommandText = "begin";
dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

try {
    dbCmd.CommandText = "insert into myTable(name, age) values('John', 15)";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbCmd.CommandText = "insert into myTable(name, age) values('Dave', 23)";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbCmd.CommandText = "insert into myTable(name, age) values('Bob', 31)";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbCmd.CommandText = "commit";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
catch(Exception e) {
    dbCmd.CommandText = "rollback";
    dbCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    dbCmd.Dispose();
    dbConn.Close();
    return;
}

I prefer the latter because it's more simple and I don't have to care about disposing an additional object, but I'm not sure if there are any differences or issues between these.

Both are the same?