Question

I just can’t find a simple answer to this simple question I have from Dr Google. I have the following serializing function which I put in a static module. It is called many times by my application to serialize lots of XML files. Will this cause memory to over grow? (Ignore the text write part of the code)

public static void SerializeToXML<T>(String inFilename,T t) 
{
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(t.GetType());
    string FullName = inFilename;
    TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(FullName);
    serializer.Serialize(textWriter, t); 
    textWriter.Close();
    textWriter.Dispose();
}

Answer 1

Will this cause memory to over grow?

No. There will be no memory over growing. static will let you call SerializeToXML method without create a new instance of the class. Not anything else.

So if you’re calling this method many times, You even shrinking the memory usage with a static method.

Though you wrote to ignore the text write part, You should use using statement for unmanaged resources:

public static void SerializeToXML<T>(String inFilename,T t) 
{
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(t.GetType());
    string FullName = inFilename;
    using (TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(FullName))
    {
        serializer.Serialize(textWriter, t); 
        textWriter.Close();
    }
}