I'm reading "The C# Language", 4th Edition, it talks about garbage collection as below: "BILL WAGNER: The following rule is an important difference between C# and other managed envi...

I have few Question for which I am not able to get a proper answer . 1) Why should we call SuppressFinalize in the Dispose function when we don't have a destructor . 2) Dispose and finalize are u...

Is there any downside of calling GC.SuppressFinalize(object) multiple times? Protected Dispose(bool) method of the dispose pattern checks whether it is called before but there is no such check in t...

I was just reading this article, “Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework”, by Jeffrey Richter, and I couldn't think of any real life sample for using ReRegi...

I have the following code: public void Dispose() { if (_instance != null) { _instance = null; // Call GC.SupressFinalize to take this object off the finalization // queue and prevent fi...

I use a default IDisposable implementation template (pattern) for my code. snippet: public void Dispose() { Dispose(true); GC.SuppressFinalize(this); } protected virtual void Dispose(bool isD...

In .NET, under which circumstances should I use GC.SuppressFinalize()? What advantage(s) does using this method give me?