code snippets for ".NET Memory Management" post

s1.cs

public class MyDisposableClass : IDisposable
{
    private bool disposed = false;
 
    public void Dispose()
    {
        Dispose(true);
        // prevent this object from being placed in the finalization queue if some
        // derived class provides a finalizer
        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
    }
 
    protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (!disposed)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                // dispose all Disposable Managed Resources here
            }
 
            // dispose all Unmanaged Resources here
 
            // set disposed to true to prevent the code above from being
            // executed a second time
            disposed = true;
        }
    }
}

s2.cs

public ~MyDisposableClass()
{
    Dispose(false);
}

s3.cs

public void DoSomethingInteresting(MyDisposableClass disposableResource)
{
    // ... some code could go here
    disposableResource.DoWhateverItIsThatMakesYouSoSpecial();
    // ... some code could go here
 
    // we reach the end of the method and we haven't Disposed the
    // Disposable Managed Resource because it wasn't our responsibility
}

s4.cs

public void DoSomethingInteresting()
{
    // ... some code could go here
    using (var myDisposableResource = new MyDisposableClass())
    {
        myDisposableResource.DoWhateverItIsThatMakesYouSoSpecial();
    }
    // ... some code could go here
 
    // we reach the end of the method and we properly Disposed the
    // Disposable Managed Resource because it was our responsibility
}