Setting classes to nothing

Question

User-454619676 posted

Hi All

This is my first post and my first forray in .net, previously I've only used VB6 and am loving .net!!

I have made a website in ASP with VB and on the examples that I've seen classes that are used are not set to nothing. Is this not needed in .net?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

User-1360095595 posted

It's not needed.  Garbage collection shields you from having to do anything.  Object that go out of scope will (eventually) be disposed when the GC runs.

Answer 2

User1757172363 posted

Careful with your terminology:  I think you are asking if you need to set an object to null when doing the following:

 

Dim obj As SomeClass = Nothing

The answer is no.  By default obj will be Nothing even if you didn't assign it.