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Software design pattern in which resources held by objects can be explicitly released

In object-oriented programming, the dispose pattern is a design pattern for resource management. In this pattern, a resource is held by an object, and released by calling a conventional method – usually called close, dispose, free, release depending on the language – which releases any resources the object is holding onto. Many programming languages offer language constructs to avoid having to call the dispose method explicitly in common situations. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Dispose patternA 5-minute orientation
  2. Pick up a classic book: Patterns, thinking, and cognitionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  3. Read the landmark paper: Investigation of the Dispose-Pattern Algorithm in Making Memory Management Decisions in the .NET Client-Component ModelCited 0 times
  4. Go sideways: Resource management (computing)A closely related topic
  5. Go sideways: Resource acquisition is initializationA closely related topic

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