Dispose Class Resources

Question

I have the following class:

public class MailData : IDisposable
{
  public IDictionary<String, Tuple<Byte[], String>> Attachments { get; set; }
  public String From { get; set; }
  public IList<String> To { get; set; }   
  public MailType Type { get; set; }
} // MailData

What would be the correct way to dispose the class?

I mean, I think I should remove all Byte[] from Dictionary ...

What about the other properties?

Answer 1

.NET is a managed environment and you have to allow the Garbage Collector to do it's job, there is no reason for you to dispose simple reference classes and byte[] is still a reference.

Usually you use the Dispose pattern to let go of valuable resources such as file I/O, various Streams, database connections...etc

In your case however, there is no need to do anything on your own.

Welcome to the managed world of C#.