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greetings,
should i do this

obj.dispose

then

obj = nothing

both does the same thing right? whats the core difference?

"Asha" <> wrote in message
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> greetings,
> should i do this
>
> obj.dispose
>
> then
>
> obj = nothing
>
> both does the same thing right? whats the core difference?

No. obj = nothing doesn't do anything anymore. It simply removes one
reference to the object. If that's the last reference to the object, then
the object may eventually be garbage-collected.

Dispose cleans up whatever the object thinks needs to be cleaned up, and
does it immediately.
--
John Saunders
johnwsaundersiii at hotmail

Dispose method is used to clean up the unwanted resources like sqlconnections,command objects,

dispose method will be called automatically if we create the instance in the following way

using ( DBreader reader=sp.executereader)
{

}

if DBreader is implemented idisposable interface then dispose method will be called
automatically at the end of scope,

nothing is used to remove the reference of the object even if we force the object to nothing, it will take some time to relaese the reference by the garbage.
"Asha" wrote:

> greetings,
> should i do this
>
> obj.dispose
>
> then
>
> obj = nothing
>
> both does the same thing right? whats the core difference?

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:37:01 -0700, Saravanan Durai <Saravanan
> wrote:

>Dispose method is used to clean up the unwanted resources like sqlconnections,command objects,
>
>dispose method will be called automatically if we create the instance in the following way
>
>using ( DBreader reader=sp.executereader)
>{
>
>}
>
>if DBreader is implemented idisposable interface then dispose method will be called
>automatically at the end of scope,
>
In fact, the only objects you can put inside a using clause are
objects implementing IDisposable!

--s
--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com