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Use of Garbage Collection?

sharique khan

Hi, I want to know what action is performed when we call Dispose() method. Is Object frees all resources quickly on Dispose() call or Dispose() marks the Object is ready for garbage collection. And What happened when we set Object reference to NULL. Actually I have Windows form application in .NET 2.0. And I want to call garbage collector after certain time is passed(For Example after 5 mins) to collect all unreferenced Object.

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Mahesh Chand16y ago
You do not need to implement or call Dispose at all in .NET Framework unless you have some unmanaged code that cannot autimatically be managed by the GC. GC manages the life cycle of all managed objects and when finds not being used for a while, GC releases them and frees the memory. Check out articles in the right side of this post related to Garbage collection.