Question

I’ve got this piece of code:

try
{
    using(conn)
    {
         conn.UpdateScheduledTaskGuid(taskID, taskGUID);            
    }
}

On the conn variable I’m getting the error “Cannot implicitly convert type DataProvider to System.IDisposable“

DataProvider is a custom class that someone created in this project I’m working in which is the type for the conn variable above.

I guess I need to have DataProvider implement IDisposable but I am not sure if that’s really the problem here or not and if I do have to implement it, what unmanaged resources is it having a problem with that requires me to add IDisposable?

Here’s the DataProvider class:DataProvider.txt

Answer 1

DataProvider must indeed implement IDisposable, because it owns a IDbConnection, which it must properly dispose of.