[Mono-devel-list] About some object-drop actions (Finalizers and IDisposable)

[yoros at wanadoo.es]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:22:17PM +1100, Chris Masters wrote:
> Would a C# using block acheive what you want? It calls dispose on the object
> you specify upon exiting the using block. Or is this still too dependant on
> the client for you?
> 
> using System;
> 
> public class App
> {
>      public static void Main()
>      {
>          using (SomeClass s = new SomeClass())
>          {
>               s.HelloWorld();
>          }
>      }
> }
> 
> public class SomeClass : IDisposable
> {
>      public void HelloWorld()
>      {
>          Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
>      }
>      public void Dispose()
>      {
>          Console.WriteLine("disposing!");
>      }
> }
> 
> GC.Collect would do it I suppose, but is bad to do explicitly in the .NET
> framework as it promotes objects to the next gen if they aren't collectable,
> but I guess thats not an issue in Mono since its not a generational GC atm.
> 

But using IDisposable you should call s.Dispose() from the client side.
I think I can't do what I want (finalizers "must" be called before
freeing an object but that's not ensured... :(

Regards,

    Pedro

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