C#: “Using” Statements with HttpWebRequests/HttpWebResponses

Question

Jon Skeet made a comment (via Twitter) on my SOApiDotNet code (a .NET library for the pre-alpha Stack Overflow API):

@maximz2005 One thing I\'ve noticed

Answer 1

In order to prevent memory leaks you should call Dispose on every object that implements IDisposable. You can ensure that the Dispose method in called by using the using keyword (no pun intended) as it is just a syntactic sugar for try-finally block.