Hello,

Newbie question here for disposing of unmanaged resources in MC++.NET.
I have a managed VS.NET 2003 MC++ wrapper class that wraps a unmanaged
C++ dll. What I am trying to figure out is what is the "best practice"
for disposing of pointers to unmanaged classes that you have newed in
your constructor in MC++

For a better description of what is the standard affair I have tried
looking online at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcmxspec/html/v
cmg_techniquesconstructorsdestructors.asp

but I would have to say its very lacking in detail or explanation. Does
anyone know of a better reference or can point me to for this?

My constructor looks something like this:

MClass::MClass()
{
    pUnmanagedClass_ = new UnmanagedLib::UClass(); //unmanaged heap
    pBridgeClass_ = new _UClassBridge(); //unmanaged heap

pUnmanagedClass_->RegisterUnmanagedCallBack(&(pBridgeClass_->UnmanagedBridgeCallback));
}

pUnanagedClass_ is a pointer to class in a unmanaged C++ DLL
pBridgeClass_ is a pointer to a __nogc class I created in MC++

Here is my destructor for this class:
MClass::~MClass()
{
     pUnmanagedClass_->UnRegisterCallbacks();
     pUnmanagedClass_->~UClass(); ///do I need this line

     delete pUnmanagedClass_; //because it was newed
     delete pBridgeClass_; //because it was newed
}

Since I newed the pointers I would guess that I would have to
explicitly call delete on them...is this the case? I also need to
ensure that destrutor gets called in the C++ DLL immediately
(pUnmanagedClass) so I added a line for this in the managed class
destructor...is this necessary or is it safe to assume it will get
called because the delete is called

Thanks