StructureMap Disposing Container

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In my application each tenant has it's own StructureMap container.

At runtime, tenant instances may be shutdown or restarted. Is there any tidying up I should do (such as calling IContainer.Dispose) or should I just let Garbage Collection do it's job?

We do have a number of singleton instances that implement IDisposable. Ideally we should call Dispose on these prior to disposing the container. I know this is done automatically on a Nested Container but wasn't sure about a standard container?

Thanks,

Ben

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '11 at 16:56

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You should call Dispose on your container, which will dispose cached instances for you.

answered Mar 28 '11 at 16:56

Robin Clowers

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '17 at 15:25

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Call dispose on the containers.

You should never "just let the Garbage Collector do its job". See my response to this post to understand why:

Is it bad practice to depend on the garbage collector

answered Oct 16 '17 at 15:25

Dave Black

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I was using StructureMap inside of a TopShelf Windows service and every 2/3 times the deployment would fail and just hang. It turned out the cause was not disposing of the container. – wootscootinboogie Mar 19 '18 at 15:10

StructureMap Disposing Container

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