Tutorial by Examples: dispose

.NET Framework defines a interface for types requiring a tear-down method: public interface IDisposable { void Dispose(); } Dispose() is primarily used for cleaning up resources, like unmanaged references. However, it can also be useful to force the disposing of other resources even though ...

Consider the following block of code. try { using (var disposable = new MyDisposable()) { throw new Exception("Couldn't perform operation."); } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } class MyDisposable : IDisposable { public vo...

Higher-order functions can be used to ensure that system resources are disposed, even when a treatment raises an exception. The pattern used by with_output_file allows a clean separation of concerns: the higher-order with_output_file functions takes care of managing the system resources bound to fi...

For some use cases, you can use the using syntax to help define a custom scope. For example, you can define the following class to execute code in a specific culture. public class CultureContext : IDisposable { private readonly CultureInfo originalCulture; public CultureContext(string ...

Implement Dispose() method (and declare the containing class as IDisposable) as a means to ensure any memory-heavy resources are freed as soon as the object is no longer used. The "catch" is that there is no strong guarantee the the Dispose() method would ever be invoked (unlike finalizers...