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Difference between Destructor, dispose and finalize method
Destructor
They are special methods that contains clean up code for the object. You can’t call them explicitly in your code as they are called implicitly by GC (Garbage Collector). In C# they have same name as the class name preceded by the "~" sign. Like-
class MyClass
{
public MyClass ()
{
}
~MyClass ()
{
}
}
Dispose
These are just like any other methods in the class and can be called explicitly but they have a special purpose of cleaning up the object. In the dispose method we write clean up code for the object. It is important that we freed up all the unmanaged resources in the dispose method like database connection, files etc.
The class implementing dispose method should implement IDisposable which is inherited by interface and it contains GC.SuppressFinalize method for the object it is disposing if the class has destructor because it has already done the work to clean up the object, then it is not necessary for the garbage collector to call the object's Finalize method.
