The Dispose Pattern
The lesson presents the full dispose pattern: a protected Dispose(bool managed) method guarded by a disposed flag, the IDisposable interface, GC.SuppressFinalize to remove the object from the finalization queue, and a distinction between managed and unmanaged cleanup paths.
Previous Module
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