How important is it to dispose (actually I could not find a Dispose method on an Entity) and set the reference to nothing?

For example, do I need the NewScore = Nothing in this example?

    Public Shared Function ValidateScore(ByRef score As ScoreEntity, ByVal newScoreValue As String, ByVal specialScores As EntityCollection, ByVal errorMessage As String) As Boolean
        Dim NewScore As New ScoreEntity

        Try ...

        Catch ex As Exception
            Throw
        Finally
            NewScore = Nothing
        End Try

    End Function

Thanks,

Fishy

Dispose is not that important on an entity, as it doesn't hold unmanaged resources. Dispose is required when you have an object which holds unmanaged resources (or allocates them indirectly). With an entity, this isn't the case.