DevForce Community Forum : EFContextProvider<T> should implement IDisposable http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : Community Forum : EFContextProvider<T> should implement IDisposable Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:39:49 -700 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:38:07 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3699 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ EFContextProvider<T> should implement IDisposable : Agreed, this should probably be... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3699&PID=14780#14780 Author: jtraband
Subject: 3699
Posted: 08-Oct-2012 at 9:38am

Agreed, this should probably be fixed in one of the next few releases.

If this worries you for right now, you can directly access the Context object from the EFContextProvider instance, cast it to either an ObjectContext or a DbContext and call dispose on it.

As a side note: 

From the Albarahi "c#4.0 in a nutshell" book:

 > Although DataContext/ObjectContext implementIDisposable, you can (in general) get away without disposing instances.Disposing forces the context’s connection to dispose—but this is usuallyunnecessary because L2S and EF close connections automatically whenever youfinish retrieving results from a query <<


]]> Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:38:07 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3699&PID=14780#14780 EFContextProvider<T> should implement IDisposable : EFContextProvider&lt;T&gt; instantiates... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3699&PID=14778#14778 Author: pawel
Subject: 3699
Posted: 08-Oct-2012 at 7:34am

EFContextProvider<T> instantiates DbContext which implements IDisposable, but EFContextProvider<T> doesn't implement IDisposable. I think it should.]]> Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:34:19 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3699&PID=14778#14778