title: Should Entity Framework Context be Put into Using Statement?
body: <p>The Entity Framework context object implements a Dispose() method which "Releases the resources used by the object context". What does it do really? Could it be a bad thing to always put it into a using {} statement? I've seen it being used both with and without the using statement.</p>
  
  <p>I'm specifically going to use the EF context from within a WCF service method, create the context, do some linq and return the answer.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Seems that I'm not the only one wondering about this. Another question is what's really happening inside the Dispose() method. Some say it closes connections, and some articles says not. What's the deal?</p>