The Dispose Pattern: Using Blocks
We introduce the using statement as syntactic sugar for a try/finally block that guarantees Dispose is called when a scope exits, discuss how the compiler uses the IDisposable interface, and summarize when the finalizer fallback is needed and when it can be safely ignored.
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Memory Performance Optimizations
This Module
Disposing and Finalizing Objects
Using Object Finalizers
Finalization on the Heap
Finalizer Performance and Ordering
Finalizer Reliability
Demo: Benchmarking Finalized Objects (part 1)
Demo: Benchmarking Finalized Objects (part 2)
Using Disposable Objects
The Dispose Pattern
The Dispose Pattern: Using Blocks
Demo: Benchmarking Disposable Objects