Do I need to force a Dispose after a LINQ query?

Question

My DBA says that there are way too many connection open and he thinks it is my code in .net that is leaving them open.

I am using LINQ querys and EF code first.

Answer 1

By default DbContext automatically manages the connection for you. So you shouldn't have to explicitly call Dispose.

Blog post on the subject: Link

But I believe not disposing can cause performance issues if you're processing a lot of requests. You should add a using statement to see whether or not it's causing a problem in your case.