Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 10th Edition

Chapter 14

Using garbage collection and resource management

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Explain the purpose of the garbage collector and how it works.

• Manage system resources by using garbage collection.

• Release a resource at a known point in time in an exception-safe manner by writing a try/finally statement.

• Release a resource at a known point in time in an exception-safe manner by writing a using statement.

• Implement the IDisposable and IAsyncDisposable interfaces to support exception-safe disposal in a class.

You’ve seen in earlier chapters how to create variables and objects, and you should understand how memory is allocated when you create variables and objects. (In case you don’t remember, value types are created ...