Question

Suppose a class is defined:

class TestClass
{
    MemoryStream s = new MemorySteam();

    void DoStuff()
    {
        using (s = new MemoryStream())
        {
            // Do stuff
        }
    }
}

What happens to s when the using statement exits scope?

Edit:
Will there be a problem using s in a different method?

Edit 2: Will there be an unreferenced object left undisposed from the first instantiation of MemoryStream?

Answer 1

It’s Dispose method is called. (Note that it must implement the IDisposable interface so it can guarantee that Dispose is available)

The MSDN reference is pretty good IMO

Phil Haack also wrote an in depth article on this 7 years ago.

UPDATE TO YOUR EDIT

Once a method has had its dispose method called it will throw an exception if you try to use it outside of the scope of the method. So, yes it would be bad to reference it outside of the using. To be precise, it will throw an ObjectDisposedException