Hacking IDisposable: The Stopwatch Example

Provides a mechanism for releasing unmanaged resources.

This is the first sentence you can read about IDisposable interface in the Microsoft documentation - and it definitely should be the primary usage of it. However, the C# language is cool enough to have a special using statement that comes along when using objects that implement IDisposable. There is something elegant and compact about this language structure, which makes me really like it - that's why I use it even for places …

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