Troubleshooting Dispose Related Leaks

Recently the SPDisposeCheck utility was announced by Paul Andrew from the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group which was published 1/29/09 here. This command line utility will help scan your custom MOSS and WSS 3.0 .NET assemblies (MSIL not your original source code) automatically scanning for the guidance listed on this blog post. SPDisposeCheck will produce a summary report calling your attention to areas in your code you that you need to closely examine for possible Dispose() related leaks. After you have completed your initial scan with SPDisposeCheck you should examine the SharePoint ULS logs to help further verify that no Dispose() edge cases will be introduced into your shared development, test, and production environments. Stefan Goßner (Microsoft Support Escalation Engineer) has created guidance on using the ULS logs to Troubleshooting SPSite/SPWeb leaks in WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 . See also Stefan’s Disposing SPWeb and SPSite objects for additional info. For advanced troubleshooting you can ($) contact Microsoft Support or if you have a Premier Contract you can engage Microsoft Premier Support’s Developer Advisory Services (DAS) or Premier Field Engineering (PFE) resources for advanced troubleshooting, debugging, and proactive advisory services including custom code reviews.