Disposing objects

Question

Hi Iam working on an application where objects are more often have to be dynamically created!!! How can i dispose the following objects completely from memory? a form object class object dataset object strings etc By assigning null only its reference is lost and not the object? Can anyone tell me the correct way of disposing these objects? Also is it proper to use Dispose method for all objects? Hoping for a better answer!!! Thanks

Darren Marshall · Answer

If your worried about the amount of memory usage reported by Task Manager you should read this article: http://www.itwriting.com/dotnetmem.php As previously mentioned the Garbage Collection of the CLR does a good job for you. Edit: By assigning null the Object is no longer referenced and then the Garbage Collection eats up the Object and will free the memory. Cant hurt to assign null to Objects you no longer require.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Unless you have created complex objects (classes) of your own there is no need to destroy object manually. They should all be destroyed by CLR automatically. Using Dispose is not recommended unless you have some resources such as GDI+ that must be disposed.