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What If I Don't Call Dispose() on my LINQ to SQL DataContext Object?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:05:41 GMT

Steven Walther recently posted on the subject of disposing of DataContext objects and provided some interesting insight into what actually happens. From what he says it sounds like the DataContext object acts much like the SqlDataAdapter class. It opens the connection right before a query is executed and closes it immediately after. I don't want to steal Steven's thunder so check out his post on the subject (the last part of the article talks about the consequences.or lack of consequences.of not calling Dispose()).

Using "using" with a method

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:41:25 GMT

A nice coding technique I've just run into. It's one of those things that it's good to know about. Enjoy!

Multiple "using" statements

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:31:02 GMT

Tips on saving some indenting space on multiple "using" statements

How to Alias Namespaces and Data Types

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:10:18 GMT

One of the little known features of .NET is that you can give complete namespaces and data types alias's that you can reference them with in code. This trick allows you to get around the issue of having ambiguous namespaces and/or objects.

Using LINQ to SQL (Part 1)

Mon, 28 May 2007 00:41:35 GMT

"LINQ to SQL is an O/RM (object relational mapping) implementation that ships in the .NET Framework "Orcas" release, and which allows you to model a relational database using .NET classes. You can then query the database using LINQ, as well as update/insert/delete data from it. LINQ to SQL fully supports transactions, views, and stored procedures. It also provides an easy way to integrate data validation and business logic rules into your data model."