dispose and nothing? whats the main difference?

[Asha]

greetings,
should i do this

obj.dispose

then

obj = nothing

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

[John Saunders]

"Asha" <As**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0B**********************************@microsof t.com...

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

[Scott Allen]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:37:01 -0700, Saravanan Durai <Saravanan
Du***@discussions.microsoft.com> 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
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Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com