I received an interesting answer from
Joe Duffy at
the
MSDN Performance chat about calling dispose on a DataSet. Check out the
answer...
A: Yes, anything that implements IDisposable (or
which has a class in its base hierarchy that does) should be disposed of when
you're done with it. Otherwise, you're potentially hanging on to precious
resources that should otherwise have been released earlier. These will normally
get cleaned up inside their finalizers, but there's a cost with keeping an
object around on the finalizer queue too. DataSet, for example, derives from
MarshalByValueComponent... this base type does some work in its Dispose method,
so calling it on DataSet is still worthwhile.
