I have a .NET C# / C++ app which uses a call to exit(0) (from <stdlib.h>) in a thread in order to terminate. The strange part is, under some circumstances, the finalizers of the managed obje...

For some reason FXCop seems to think I should be calling GC.SuppressFinalize in Dispose, regardless of whether I have a finalizer or not. Am I missing something? Is there a reason to call GC.Supp...

I have a class (say MyClass) that uses (has as a private field) a TcpClient object. MyClass implements IDisposable calling TcpClient.Close in the Dispose method. My question is should MyClass als...

I have a .NET (C#) multi-threaded application and I want to know if a certain method runs inside the Finalizer thread. I've tried using Thread.CurrentThread.Name but it doesn't work (returns null...

Based on all my reading there should be one GC thread to invoke all finalizers. Now, the question is what is the scope of this "one" thread - per process or per application domain, as the whole int...

Looking for an answer for C# and C++. (in C#, replace 'destructor' with 'finalizer')