Is it compulsary to call Dispose() on custom objects Impementing IDisposable?

hi all

i have inherited code has many custom types/classes implement idisposable interface, during object life-time of these classes dispose method never gets called before object instances fall out of scope. mean resources these objects create/hold not cleaned up?

thanks in advance.

tryst

yes, gc collect memory , not resources. dispose free resources , gc takes care of memory. finalizers called teh gc , ensure unmanaged resources freed not want rely on because effictively closehandle , nothing more. no commit, no flush, ... performed when finalizers called gc not behaviour want when deal databases.

yours,
    alois kraus

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