Using dispose correctly

[Guest]

To maintain the memory on my CF device each of my custom classes implements
the IDisposable interface.

When disposing of a form using its dispose method, should all controls and
classes created within that form be disposed off programmatically or is
disposing of the form sufficient?

 

[Guest]

Disposing the Form is sufficient as long as you have SP2 (I think) or later.

-Chris

 

[Daniel Moth]

Only implement IDisposable for objects that reference other objects that
expose a Dispose method and/or hold unmanaged resources (e.g. Handles).
Implementing blindly on everything will hurt your perf and add no value.

Disposing a form will dispose its controls (not true for RTM but fixed in
one of the service packs)

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Guest]

Cheers for that Daniel, my board has only the RTM version of CF so I should
dispose of the third party grid control by overriding the dispose method on
the form.