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Sunday, October 26, 2014

C# Finalizers and IDisposable

Because C# is a garbage collected language you can usually just allow objects to be collected whenever the system gets around to it. However, sometimes you have resources that come from outside the garbage collected world ("unmanaged resources"), and you may want to be more proactive about freeing these resources. C# provides two mechanisms for dealing with unmanaged resources: finalizers and IDisposable.