ServiceContainer, IoC, and disposable objects

Question

I have a question, and I\'m going to tag this subjective since that\'s what I think it evolves into, more of a discussion. I\'m hoping for some good ideas or some thoug

Answer 1

One option might be to go with a factory pattern, so that the objects created directly by the IoC container never need to be disposed themselves, eg

IBinaryDataProviderFactory factory =
    ServiceContainer.Global.Resolve();
using(IBinaryDataProvider provider = factory.CreateProvider())
{
    ...
}

Downside is added complexity, but it does mean that the container never creates anything which the developer is supposed to dispose of - it is always explicit code which does this.

If you really want to make it obvious, the factory method could be named something like CreateDisposableProvider().