In .NET the clean activity for objects i.e when they are no longer required is done by Garbage Collector. But unmanaged resources (for example: Windows API created objects, File, Database connection ...

Before we understand why finalize is going away and what to use instead, let’s understand what finalize is or was. The basic idea is to allow you to define a method on your objects that will execute ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. They’re deprecating finalize. That’s a pretty drastic move. Finalize is defined right there in ...