In C# I know that my objects are garbage collected when they go out of scope and there are no more pointers/references to it. Is there a way to run some custom code when this garbage collection occurs?
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In C# I know that my objects are garbage collected when they go out of scope and there are no more pointers/references to it. Is there a way to run some custom code when this garbage collection occurs?
Yes, it’s called a finalizer. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wxad3cah.aspx
Much of the C# documentation confusingly uses the term “destructor”. Although the C++ naming for a destructor is used in C# for a finalizer, the semantics are totally different. If you consistently use the word finalizer, there won’t be any confusion.