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Using and Disposing of WCF Clients


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Designing an interface always requires careful considerations of how it will be used. Scott Meyers elegantly catches the entire problem in one sentence in his book Effective C++: Make interfaces easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly. The people at Microsoft who were in charge for the WCF client code generation either hadn’t read… Continue reading Using and Disposing of WCF Clients

IDisposable and using in C#

C# and the .NET environment have automatic memory management through garbage collection. Coming from C++ I think it’s great to not having to worry about memory deallocation. Unfortunately memory from the managed heap (which is where C# objects are placed)  is just one kind of resource in a system. There are several other types of… Continue reading IDisposable and using in C#