Setting ASP object variables to Nothing

[mjkahn]

Folks,

I have some ASP pages that contain code like this:

dim foo
set foo = Server.CreateObject("myDLL.myObject")
foo.CallAMethod

Is it important that I "set foo = Nothing" before each ASP page ends? If I
don't set foo to nothing, will the memory it uses be freed automatically when
the ASP page ends?

Some information that might help:
- IIS 5.0
- Windows 2000 Server
- myDLL is a custom Visual Basic 6 DLL (apartment threaded)

Thanks very much!

MJ.

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Folks,

I have some ASP pages that contain code like this:

dim foo
set foo = Server.CreateObject("myDLL.myObject")
foo.CallAMethod

Is it important that I "set foo = Nothing" before each ASP page ends?
If I don't set foo to nothing, will the memory it uses be freed
automatically when the ASP page ends?

The answer is a qualified "yes". As long as there is nothing preventing the
object from being destroyed, then it will be automatically destroyed when
the last reference to the object goes out of scope.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/04/28/122259.aspx

Bob Barrows