Top "Dispose" questions

When should I dispose my objects in .NET?

For general code, do I really need to dispose an object? Can I just ignore it for the most part …

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Should Dispose methods be unit tested?

I am using C#. Is it advised to unit test dispose methods? If so why, and how should one test …

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How to dispose properly using async and await

I'm trying to make code replacement from Thread to Task. The sleep / delay is just representing long running activity. static …

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Unmanaged resources and Dispose()

I was reading some articles about Dispose() method and found that unmanaged resources should be freed explicitly from Dispose() method (…

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Cannot access a disposed object

I am writing a tool to integrate with a web service, I have a method which just builds an ImportExportSoapClient …

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Does SqlTransaction need to have Dispose called?

Do I need to call dispose in the finally block for SqlTransaction? Pretend the developer didnt use USING anywhere, and …

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How to wait for a single event in C#, with timeout and cancellation

So my requirement is to have my function wait for the first instance an event Action<T> coming …

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C# USING keyword - when and when not to use it?

I'd like to know when i should and shouldn't be wrapping things in a USING block. From what I understand, …

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Best practice for disposing Completable, Single, Maybe and terminating Observables in RxJava

I'm asking this from an Android perspective, but this should apply to RxJava in general. As a best practice, should …

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What happens if I don't call Dispose on the pen object?

What happens if I don't call Dispose on the pen object in this code snippet? private void panel_Paint(object …

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