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&gt;&gt; Can anyone help shed some light on how to cleanup after the services run is complete?<br />
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What exactly do you mean ? What do you need to cleanup ?
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>> Can anyone help shed some light on how to cleanup after the services run is complete?

What exactly do you mean ? What do you need to cleanup ?

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Memory consumption stays at about 42,000 kb long after the service has performed its task. I let it sit overnight and the garbage collector had done nothing with it. 
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Memory consumption stays at about 42,000 kb long after the service has performed its task. I let it sit overnight and the garbage collector had done nothing with it.

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I am pretty sure about the Database connections. However I am not so sure about my objects. Should I bet setting my variables to Nothing after I am done with them?
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I am pretty sure about the Database connections. However I am not so sure about my objects. Should I bet setting my variables to Nothing after I am done with them?

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I wrote a vb.net windows service that produces a flat file from serveral database locations. The service runs continuously and the event is triggered by a day and time. Can anyone help shed some light on how to cleanup after the services run is complete?
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I wrote a vb.net windows service that produces a flat file from serveral database locations. The service runs continuously and the event is triggered by a day and time. Can anyone help shed some light on how to cleanup after the services run is complete?

Windows Service Cleanup

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