Dispose on an IList?

re: Dispose on an IList?

Chris Nahr — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:37:00 GMT

Maybe I don't understand the issue but are you sure you answered the question?

I think you talked about disposing the _enumerator_ while the question was disposing of the _elements_ of the list. Enumerators don't touch the elements at all. Neither does yours, as far as I can tell.

If you were thinking about disposing of elements in the Dispose method of an enumerator... well, that's code obfuscation on a C++ level if you ask me. :) The foreach loop proposed by the reader should do the job just fine.

re: Dispose on an IList?

Brad Abrams — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:40:00 GMT

Yea, you are right... I said it was a parital answer... I wounder if you can restructure the problem such that the enumerator holds the resources that need to be freed...

re: Dispose on an IList?

Chris Nahr — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 07:50:00 GMT

Not sure you could do anything (sensible) with the enumerator. What I would do is create a wrapper object that can be disposed of wholesale, thereby disposing of all the elements in the wrapped collection. That way you could use a single using statement, just like when you're opening a file or showing a dialog.

re: Demystifying Dispose

Chris Lyon's WebLog — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:30:00 GMT

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