Would it be good to use a singleton context on a windows service?

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I read in some places that it would be good to use a singleton context, but what if it was in a service? It will keep running all the time, making from time to time requests to a REST API, so I'm thinking, it will have an instance of the DbContext allocated on the memory.

What would be better, the using (var context = new DbContext()) or a singleton DbContext?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 15 '20 at 21:37

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DbContext is cheap, and there is some housekeeping that occurs when they are created and disposed. Don't use a singleton for one.

edited Apr 15 '20 at 21:37

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answered Apr 15 '20 at 16:14

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Would it be good to use a singleton context on a windows service?

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