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IDisposable Best Practices

for C# Developers
Introducing IDisposable

Elton Stoneman
geekswithblogs.net/eltonstoneman
@EltonStoneman
Introducing IDisposable

Memory Databases Network


Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain Heap

Stack
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain Heap

Stack
{...} int32
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
obj1
Stack
{...} int32
{...} pointer
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
obj1
Stack
{...} int32
{...} pointer obj2
{...} pointer
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
obj1
Stack
{...} int32
{...} pointer obj2
{...} pointer
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain Heap Runs processing
Stack
Releases memory
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
obj1
Stack
{...} int32
{...} pointer obj2
{...} pointer
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
Garbage obj1
Collector Garbage collector
obj2
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
Garbage obj1
Collector Garbage collector
obj2
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
Garbage obj1
Collector Garbage collector

Releases memory
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain
Heap Runs processing
Garbage obj1
Collector Garbage collector

Releases memory
Introducing IDisposable

Process allocates memory


AppDomain Heap Runs processing
Garbage
Collector Garbage collector

Releases memory
Not Using IDisposable?

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Expanding memory
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Hogging external
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Functional defects
profile resources
Introducing IDisposable

IDisposable Using and Demo with file IO,


interface implementing SQL and WCF
IDisposable
Course Outline

What Happens What Happens


Introducing
when the GC if you don't
IDisposable
Runs? Dispose?

Summary

You are here


Simple Interfaces

public interface IDontDoAnything


{
}

public class DoesntDoAnything : IDontDoAnything


{
}
Simple Interfaces

public interface IDoOneThing


{
void DoTheThing();
}

public class DoesOneThng : IDoOneThing


{
public void DoTheThing()
{
}
}
Simple Interfaces

namespace System
{
public interface IDisposable
{
void Dispose();
}
}
IDisposable
provides a mechanism for
releasing unmanaged
resources
Unmanaged Resources

Runtime-callable wrapper
Managed code External COM library

Interop Explicitly unmanaged


DllImport
PInvoke
Native library IntPtr
Unmanaged Resources

Managed access
Managed code External resources

IO Data Svc Implicitly unmanaged


System.IO
System.Data
System.ServiceModel
Using IDisposable

public class MayUseUnmanagedResources : IDisposable


{
public void Method() { /* ... */ }

public void Dispose() { /* ... */ }


}

static void Main()


{
using (var obj = new MayUseUnmanagedResources())
{
obj.Method();
}
}
Demo 1: SqlConnection
Demo 1: SqlConnection

public class DatabaseState : IDisposable


{
private SqlConnection _connection;

/* ... */
}

using (var state = new DatabaseState())


{
state.GetDate().Dump();
}
Demo 1: SqlConnection

public class DatabaseState : IDisposable


{
private SqlConnection _connection;

/* ... */

public void Dispose()


{
_connection.Close();
_connection.Dispose();
}
}
Demo 1: SqlConnection

using (var command = _connection.CreateCommand())


{
command.CommandText = "SELECT getdate()";
return command.ExecuteScalar().ToString();
}
Best Practice #1
Dispose of IDisposable
objects as soon as you can
✮
Best Practice #1

using (var state = new DatabaseState())


{
state.GetDate().Dump();
}

var state = new DatabaseState();


try
{
state.GetDate().Dump();
}
finally
{
state.Dispose();
}
The Word Counting App

Σ(B) = 40,000 words


The Word Counting App
Everything Else

Managed Code
Demo 2: The Word Counting App

Feature Walkthrough Walkthrough


Compute number Verify file drops App failing
of words in text have word count because of
file & store count persisted neglecting
in database IDisposable
Demo 2: The Word Counting App

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Summary

 Introducing IDisposable 
 Interface definition
 Meaning

 Unmanaged resources 
 Native code– IntPtr & interop
 *And* managed code
 Which implements IDisposable What Happens
 May or may not use unmanaged resources when the GC
Runs?
 Demo solution 
 File IO, SQL and WCF

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