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.NET Tip: Implement IDisposable to Ensure Your Objects Clean Up After Themselves
Be a good resource citizen by implementing IDisposable. You will be able to ensure that your objects have the opportunity to release all of their managed and unmanaged resources.
.NET Tip: Managing Resources with the Using Statement
Take control of the lifetime of your objects. Release your object's resources on your schedule, not when the CLR determines they are no longer needed.
Managing Exceptions in .NET
Learn about the techniques and guidelines you can use to make your application stable and less prone to errors, hande errors in a graceful manner, and avoid crashing.
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