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When we talk about the GC and the "heap", we're really talking about what's called the managed heap. Objects on the managed heap can access resources not on the managed heap, for example, when writing to or reading from a file. Unexpected behavior can occur when, a file is opened for readi...

When writing wrappers for unmanaged resources, you should subclass SafeHandle rather than trying to implement IDisposable and a finalizer yourself. Your SafeHandle subclass should be as small and simple as possible to minimize the chance of a handle leak. This likely means that your SafeHandle imple...