When to dispose CancellationTokenSource?

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Speaking about whether it’s really necessary to call Dispose on CancellationTokenSource… I had a memory leak in my project and it turned out that CancellationTokenSource was the problem.

My project has a service, that is constantly reading database and fires off different tasks, and I was passing linked cancellation tokens to my workers, so even after they had finished processing data, cancellation tokens weren’t disposed, which caused a memory leak.

MSDN Cancellation in Managed Threads states it clearly:

Notice that you must call Dispose on the linked token source when you are done with it. For a more complete example, see How to: Listen for Multiple Cancellation Requests.

I used ContinueWith in my implementation.

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