As several others have pointed out in general this is not a problem. The only case it will cause you issues is if you return in the middle of a using statement and additionally return the in using variable. But then again, this would also cause you issues even if you didn’t return and simply … Read more
The finalizer method is called when your object is garbage collected and you have no guarantee when this will happen (you can force it, but it will hurt performance). The Dispose method on the other hand is meant to be called by the code that created your class so that you can clean up and … Read more
Objects will be cleaned up when they are no longer being used and when the garbage collector sees fit. Sometimes, you may need to set an object to null in order to make it go out of scope (such as a static field whose value you no longer need), but overall there is usually no … Read more