Calling .Dispose() method on objects helps in Garbage Collection?

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I am Calling .Dispose() method on objects, does it helps in Garbage Collection?
Please find an example below;

DataSet recordSet=null;
try
{
    ... //connection, command and adapter realated statements.
    adapter.Fill(recordSet);
    return recordSet;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    throw;
}
finally
{
    if (recordSet!=null)
    {
        recordSet.Dispose();
    }
    recordSet=null;
    GC.Collect();
    GC.Collect(2);
}

Posted 19-Sep-11 3:48am

avigodse

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Rob Philpott · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-19T03:56:00

Solution 1

Garbage collection is best left to its own devices, don't try to coerce it with GC.Collect.

Dispose doesn't really help with garbage collection, but it does help by releasing unmanaged resources before they get GCed.

A using statement does all that exception stuff for you btw.

Posted 19-Sep-11 3:56am

Rob Philpott

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Mehdi Gholam 19-Sep-11 10:03am

My 5!

avigodse 20-Sep-11 5:23am

But as I have tried to remove the explicit calls of GC.Collect(), it did not collect the disposed object memory soon, but it waits till it reaches a point, and which is is very random or on at need.