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IDisposable and using in C#
C# and the .NET environment have automatic memory management through garbage collection. Coming from C++ I think it’s great to not having to worry about memory deallocation. Unfortunately memory from...
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Implementing IDisposable
In the IDisposable and using in C# post I showed how to handle an object that implements IDisposable. That’s the most common scenario, where a simple using will ensure that resources are properly and...
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Disposable Base Class
I have covered the IDisposable interface in my previous posts IDisposable and using in C# and Implementing IDisposable. To make the implementation of IDisposable easier, I have written an abstract base...
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Using and Disposing of WCF Clients
Designing an interface always requires careful considerations of how it will be used. Scott Meyers elegantly catches the entire problem in one sentence in his book Effective C++: Make interfaces easy...
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Exception Safety and IDisposable Factories
C# is mostly relieved from the stress of exception safety, thanks to garbage collections. But in some cases it must be handled. A common case is factories creating more than one IDisposable object....
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