Question

I have been looking over several examples of backgroundworkers and I ran across code that looks similar to this

public class MyClass
{
  public MyClass()
  {
    using(BackgroundWorker _Worker = new BackgroundWorker { WorkerReportsProgress = true})
    {
      _Worker.DoWork += (s, args) =>
      {
        ...
      };
    }
    _Worker.RunWorkerAsync();
  }
}

I have not been using the “using” statment in my code like this. I ran across something similar while using the Code Rush trial, which made me come back to this code and question if i should be doing this or not. Please help me understand if/why this would be best practice. Thanks.

Answer 1

Actually BackgroundWorker does not need to be disposed, see here. So there is no need to have the using clause