IDisposable for convenience?

Asked Oct 26 '15 at 15:52

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I'm looking at implementing IDisposable for a transaction-like class I am creating. All of the MSDN documentation I have read mentions that IDisposable should be used for freeing unmanaged resources, not necessarily talking about the convenience and tidiness of not having a try-catch-finally around everything.

All of what I want to do deals with managed resources, but I do want the Dispose() method to effectively perform a rollback if nothing was committed before it was called - is there anything wrong with using it for this purpose?

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asked Oct 26 '15 at 15:52

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"Transaction-like class"? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.transactions.transactionscope(v=vs.110).aspx – Matthew Whited Oct 26 '15 at 15:54
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See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5265841/how-to-create-a-class-that-works-with-transactionscope – Eric J. Oct 26 '15 at 15:59
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Note: More generally, you can certainly implement IDisposable() for purposes other than releasing unmanaged resources. – Eric J. Oct 26 '15 at 16:00
@MatthewWhited I know about TransactionScope but had read a few posts about how it is a bit flakey for purely C# objects - looking more closely, those links are all a bit dated. – pkunal7 Oct 26 '15 at 16:19
And thanks @EricJ. you answered my question and the link was very useful. Just need to redirect my unit tests and move my code :) – pkunal7 Oct 26 '15 at 16:20
well C# doesnt have transactional memory – Matthew Whited Oct 26 '15 at 16:20
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http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/6cfc842d-1c16-4739-afaf-edb35f544384/default.aspx – Matthew Whited Oct 26 '15 at 16:23
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory#C.23 – Matthew Whited Oct 26 '15 at 16:24

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