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Response.Redirect(“”) inside “using{ }”

Pretty much that. If I had, for example, a connection to the database in a using statement and somewhere inside that using statement I redirected to another page, would it dispose of my connection or would I have to manually call it first?

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Yes, it would absolutely call Dispose. The point of a using statement is that Dispose is called in a finally block, so the resource will be disposed whether the block completes normally or with an exception.

There’s a slight wrinkle here in that IIRC, Response.Redirect throws a ThreadAbortException which will automatically rethrow if it’s caught, but that shouldn’t affect a finally block.