Loops and Garbage Collection

Question

I am working on a web application and I have run into the following situation.

Dim a as Object
Dim i as Integer = 0

Try

    For i=1 to 5

        a = new O         


        

Answer 1

No you don't need it. .NET has garbage collection. And since it looks like this code is in a method scope the garbage collection will clean up any local variables.