Cleaning up

When using c# you dont need to clean up yourself. Memory management is taken care of by the .net plattform. When a variable goes out of scope (ie no code can use it) then it becomes eligible for garbage collection, which means that the garbage collector will eventually reclaim the memory taken by that object and "give it back" to the heap. You might still need to write some clean-up code, if you are using other resources (database connections, files, network connections...). In this case you will have to implement a destructor. A destructor is a method that gets called automatically when the object becomes garbage collected. In this method might want to close database connections, file streams, etc. See Object.Finalize in the .NET library documentation This article might prove useful http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/June/UnderstandingDestructors.asp Hope this helps! JR

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Administrator23y ago
l_objModel = null; simple as that.
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Administrator23y ago
When using c# you dont need to clean up yourself. Memory management is taken care of by the .net plattform. When a variable goes out of scope (ie no code can use it) then it becomes eligible for garbage collection, which means that the garbage collector will eventually reclaim the memory taken by that object and "give it back" to the heap. You might still need to write some clean-up code, if you are using other resources (database connections, files, network connections...). In this case you will have to implement a destructor. A destructor is a method that gets called automatically when the object becomes garbage collected. In this method might want to close database connections, file streams, etc. See Object.Finalize in the .NET library documentation This article might prove useful http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/June/UnderstandingDestructors.asp Hope this helps! JR
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