Course Summary

Elton Stoneman
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Continuous Integration Nightly Build

 Build & Test

 Build, Test & Deploy
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 Why write this course?

Continuous Integration Nightly Build

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 Why write this course?

Continuous Integration Nightly Build

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Continuous Integration Nightly Build

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Build & Test Build, Test & Deploy
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 The Best Practices

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Best Practice #1
Dispose of IDisposable
objects as soon as you can

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Best Practice #2
If you use IDisposable
objects as instance fields,
implement IDisposable

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 #1 #2
Best Practice #3 #3

Allow Dispose() to be called

multiple times and don't
throw exceptions

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Best Practice #4 #3

Implement IDisposable to
#4

support disposing resources

in a class hierarchy

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Best Practice #5 #3

If you use unmanaged #4

resources, declare a finalizer
#5

which cleans them up

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 #1 #2
Best Practice
#6 #6 #3

Enable Code Analysis with

#4

CA2000 enabled – but don’t

#5

rely on it

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 #1 #2
Best Practice
#6 #7 #3

If you implement an interface

#4

and use IDisposable fields,

#5
#7
extend your interface from
IDisposable

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Best Practice
#6 #8 #3

If you implement IDisposable,

#4

don’t implement it explicitly

#5
#7

#8

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 Using IDisposable Correctly

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 Summary

 Introducing IDisposable 
 Interface definition
 Unmanaged resources & other IDisposables

 What happens when the GC runs? 

 GC what and when
 Where IDisposable fits in

 What happens when you don't dispose? 

 Functional defects
 Performance problems
 How to find & fix problems

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