How to use StringWriter and HtmlWriter together without Code Analysis warnings

Question

I'm using .net and need to get some html text, so I thought I would use the HtmlTextWriter and StringWriter together to get the well-formed html. But despite all the different ways I write the code I still get warnings from the static code analyzer (using Microsoft All Rules). In the code examples below I show the code analyzer warning in a comment. To simplify the code I don't actually make any calls to the HtmlTextWriter (you'll see a comment to that effect in each function). How can I write the code properly to avoid the warnings?

// CA2000 : Microsoft.Reliability : In method 'Default.Func1()', object 'stringWriter' is not disposed along all exception paths. Call System.IDisposable.Dispose on object 'stringWriter' before all references to it are out of scope.
public static string Func1()
{
    string html;
    StringWriter stringWriter;
    using (var writer = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter = new StringWriter()))
    {
        // You would do some stuff with the writer here, but not for this example.

        html = stringWriter.ToString();
    }
    return html;
}

// CA2202 : Microsoft.Usage : Object 'stringWriter' can be disposed more than once in method 'Default.Func2()'. To avoid generating a System.ObjectDisposedException you should not call Dispose more than one time on an object.: Lines: 45
public static string Func2()
{
    string html;
    StringWriter stringWriter = null;
    try
    {
        using (var writer = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter = new StringWriter()))
        {
            // You would do some stuff with the writer here, but not for this example.

            html = stringWriter.ToString();
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        if (stringWriter != null)
            stringWriter.Dispose();
    }
    return html;
}

// CA2202 : Microsoft.Usage : Object 'stringWriter' can be disposed more than once in
// method 'Default.Func3()'. To avoid generating a System.ObjectDisposedException 
// you should not call Dispose more than one time on an object.: Lines: 61
public static string Func3()
{
    string html;
    using (var stringWriter = new StringWriter())
    {
        using (var writer = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter))
        {
            // You would do some stuff with the writer here, but not for this example.

            html = stringWriter.ToString();
        }
    }
    return html;
}

// CA2202 : Microsoft.Usage : Object 'stringWriter' can be disposed more than once in 
// method 'Default.Func4()'. To avoid generating a System.ObjectDisposedException you 
// should not call Dispose more than one time on an object.: Lines: 77
public static string Func4()
{
    string html;
    using (StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter())
    {
        using (HtmlTextWriter writer = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter))
        {
            // You would do some stuff with the writer here, but not for this example.

            html = stringWriter.ToString();
        }
    }
    return html;
}

// CA2202 : Microsoft.Usage : Object 'stringWriter' can be disposed more than once in 
// method 'Default.Func5()'. To avoid generating a System.ObjectDisposedException you 
// should not call Dispose more than one time on an object.: Lines: 100
public static string Func5()
{
    string html;
    StringWriter stringWriter = null;
    try
    {
        stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        using (HtmlTextWriter htmlTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter))
        {
            // You would do some stuff with the writer here, but not for this example.

            html = stringWriter.ToString();
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        if (stringWriter != null)
            stringWriter.Dispose();
    }
    return html;
}

Answer 1

Modify your Func5 to be as follows:

public static string Func5()
{
    string html;
    StringWriter stringWriter = null;
    try
    {
        stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        using (HtmlTextWriter htmlTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter))
        {
            stringWriter = null;

            // You would do some stuff with the writer here, but not for this example.

            html = htmlTextWriter.InnerWriter.ToString();
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        if (stringWriter != null)
            stringWriter.Dispose();
    }
    return html;
}

The key is to set the stringWriter variable to null (which does not impact the InnerWriter of the HtmlTextWriter instance) and then use the InnerWriter.ToString() to get the HTML.

This is really just a modifed version of the sample in the MSDN article referenced in a previous comment but applied specifically to your usage.