>hi
>I have been told I must call Dispose on my business objects and close the connection, how do I do this? or why should I not do this?
>thanks once again

Please take this with the caveat that I know nothing about Mere Mortals. I can tell you, though, that in C# any class that implements the IDisposable interface -- which MM bizobjs apparently do -- is expected to provide and call a Dispose() method. Implementing IDisposable is an implicit statement that there is something that needs to be disposed. Holding a scarce resource like a database connection would be a typical example of when you would want to do this, rather than waiting for C#'s automatic garbage collection to kick in. When you are done with your bizobj, simply call this.Dispose(). The Dispose method should check for a valid connection and close it if found. If you are managing any other resources, release them, too. HTH....