Question

Watching few examples that use repository pattern like StoreFront I couldn’t figure out where is context.Dispose() called? Wouldn’t not disposing of data context lead to memory leaks? or is it just one Data context for each respoitory for the lifetime of application?

Answer 1

If you are using a using statement, which you should be doing, the call is automatically disposed as it implements the IDisposable interface.

Such as:

public int GetThingCount()
{
    using (MyDataContext context = new MyDataContext())  // context is created here
    {
        return context.Things.Count();
    } // it is automatically disposed of here even in the event of an exception
}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yh598w02.aspx

As a rule, when you use an IDisposable object, you should declare and
instantiate it in a using statement. The using statement calls the
Dispose method on the object in the correct way, and (when you use it
as shown earlier) it also causes the object itself to go out of scope
as soon as Dispose is called. Within the using block, the object is
read-only and cannot be modified or reassigned.

The using statement ensures that Dispose is called even if an
exception occurs while you are calling methods on the object. You can
achieve the same result by putting the object inside a try block and
then calling Dispose in a finally block; in fact, this is how the
using statement is translated by the compiler. The code example
earlier expands to the following code at compile time (note the extra
curly braces to create the limited scope for the object):