How do you dispose of IDisposableobject create inside of a Linq expression?

Question

Linq allows you to create new object inside of a query expression. This is useful when you have classes that encapsulate generation of a list. I’m wondering how you dispose

Answer 1

OK; I'm hoping this is coincidence, but: SelectMany; combining IDisposable and LINQ, which (with the custom SelectMany implementation) would allow:

    var foo =
        from r in Enumerable.Range(1, 3)
        from gen in new Generator()
        from g in gen.Gen(r)
        select g;

(note that I'm assuming there is a sensible reason to do this per r)

or with the Using() extension method (instead of SelectMany):

    var foo =
        from r in Enumerable.Range(1, 3)
        from gen in new Generator().Using()
        from g in gen.Gen(r)
        select g;

Answer 2

Doesn't sound like you should be creating a new Generator object on each iteration, for a couple of reasons:

• It's horribly inefficient to allocate (and potentially deallocated) memory repeatedly and rapidly.
• The Generator object is probably designed for only one instance to generate values for a given set of parameters. Of course, I may be wrong on this, so please clarify if necessary.

I recommend you try the following:

using (var gen = new Generator())
{
    var foo =
        from r in Enumerable.Range(1, 3)
        from g in gen.Gen(r)
        select g;
}