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Does Dispose method forces garbage collection.

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Kamil Dworkowski - 03 Feb 2004 19:02 GMT
I found that statement in some book but it does not comply with Framework
SDK Documentation.

Kamil Dworakowski
Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP] - 03 Feb 2004 21:14 GMT
> I found that statement in some book but it does not comply with Framework
> SDK Documentation.

No, dispose merely disposes of some resources(usually unmanaged ones)

> Kamil Dworakowski
Mattias Sj?gren - 03 Feb 2004 21:16 GMT
Kamil,

No it doesn't.

Mattias

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Jeffrey Wynn - 04 Feb 2004 14:52 GMT
Kamil,

Any class can implement IDisposable and therefore provide their own Dispose
method.  For that matter, they can provide a Dispose method without
implementing IDisposable.

That being said, unless the object's Dispose() is calling GC.Collect(), it
is probably not forcing a garbage collection.  It should simply be freeing
up resources (closing files, etc).

Hope this helps.
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Jeffrey Wynn
sonofsheaf@nospam.net

> I found that statement in some book but it does not comply with Framework
> SDK Documentation.
>
> Kamil Dworakowski

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