Unidev .NET Technology Blog

Posts Tagged ‘ASP.NET memory management dispose’

I am always astounded how often I inherit code from smart developers who know what they are doing, but still do not take the time to close and destroy objects. As much fuss is made about memory management and such, this is still an area of coding where laziness abounds.

.Net memory management and garbage collection is intended to free up our need to manage memory at a micro level, but at the same time it is criticized for not freeing up memory fast enough and then blamed for application issues and server slowness. For best practices, never rely on inherent memory management. Where you can, close and DISPOSE!
Read the rest of this entry »