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Simple question: I want to open a URL using the Default Browser, so I just do Process.Start(url). However, I noticed that this returns an IDisposable object.
So now I wonder if I have to dispose it? Or, for that matter, if my Application is in any way responsible for this process? The intended functionality is simply "Fire and forget", I do not want to have my application as a parent of the new process and it does not need to interact with it.
I've seen some similar but unrelated questions on SO that seem to say that simply calling Process.Start on a URL is fine, but I do not want to run into some hard to debug memory leaks/resource exhaustion issues caused my me program keeping references to long dead browser processes.
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Start(ProcessStartInfo) Starts the process resource that is specified by the parameter containing process start information (for example, the file name of the process to start) and associates the resource with a new Process component.
Start another application using your . NET code As a . NET method, Start has a series of overloads, which are different sets of parameters that determine exactly what the method does. The overloads let you specify just about any set of parameters that you might want to pass to another process when it starts.
C# Process class provides Start method for launching an exe from code. The Process class is in the System. Diagnostics namespace that has methods to run a .exe file to see any document or a webpage. The Process class provides Start methods for launching another application in the C# Programming.
Couldn't you just wrap it in a using clause to ensure the GC does whatever it needs to do with it IF you are required to dispose of it? This would still allow a sort of "fire and forget" but not leave memory/resources in a bad state.
Probably overkill but there is a really good article on CodeProject about the IDisposable interface: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/idisposable.aspx
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