I am trying to implement a iDisposable class and I saw a code like that
public class Foo: IDisposable
{
public void Dispose()
{
// Does Something.
}
~Foo()
{
}
}
what does ~Foo()?
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Raoni Zacaron
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`~Foo()` is a desctructor – Nilesh Gajare Jan 16 '14 at 12:21
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1@Nilesh: It's a *finalizer* in C#. – Joey Jan 16 '14 at 12:21
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[Mandatory reading about `IDisposable`](http://stackoverflow.com/a/538238/1864167). – Jeroen Vannevel Jan 16 '14 at 12:23
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Take a look at the Msdn, it has a really good and simple example what a destructor does http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/66x5fx1b.aspx
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It is a Finalizer and its purpose is to clean up any unmanaged resources the class holds. There is a whole lot of information to learn about what Finalizers are for and how they work.
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`IDisposable` is probably a better fit for such things and the finalizer would just call `Dispose()` in case it wasn't called previously. – Joey Jan 16 '14 at 12:24
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My point was that there is a whole theory around how the Garbage Collector handles types that implement a Finalizer. – Simon Whitehead Jan 16 '14 at 12:30