When to call Dispose in Entity Framework?
- by Abdel Olakara
Hi All,
In my application I am making use of Spring.Net for IoC. The service objects are called from the ASP.Net files to perform CRUD operations using these service object. For example, I have CustomerService to do all CRUD operations on Customer table. I use entity framework and the entities are injected .. my question is where do I call the dispose method?
As far as I understood from the API documentations, unless I call Dispose() there is no guaranty it will be garbage collected! So where and how do I do it?
Example Service Class:
public class CustomerService
{
public ecommEntities entities = {get; set;}
public bool AddCustomer(Customer customer)
{
try
{
entities.AddToCustomer(customer);
entities.SaveChanges();
return true;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
log.Error("Error occured during creation of new customer: " + e.Message + e.StackTrace);
return false;
}
}
public bool UpdateCustomer(Customer customer)
{
entities.SaveChanges();
return true;
}
public bool DeleteCustomer(Customer customer)
.
.
.
And I just create an object of CustomerService at the ASP partial class and call the necessary methods.
Thanks in advance for the best practice and ideas..
Regards,
Abdel Raoof
