Is Disposing of Entity Framework context object required

Question

We are using entity framework for communication with database in our WCF service methods, recently we run the code review tool on our service code. As usual we got many review p

Answer 1

In general if something implements IDisposable it's a Good Idea(TM) to explicitly dispose of it when you're through. This is especially true if you do not own the implementation of said object; you should treat it as a black box in this case. Additionally, even if it were not necessarily "required" to dispose of it now, it may be in the future.

Therefore, IMHO the question of whether you "need to" explicitly dispose of the object is irrelevant. If it is asking to be disposed of - by virtue of implementing IDisposable - it should be disposed of.