Who owns controls?

Question

Let's say I have some component like this:

class SomeForm : Form
{
    private Control example;

    public void Stuff()
    {
        this.example = new ComboBox();
        // ...
        this.Controls.Add(example);
    }

    public void OtherStuff()
    {
        this.Controls.Remove(example);
    }
}

Who is responsible for calling Dispose on the example control? Does removing it from this.Controls cause it to be disposed? Or does this leak bunches of window handles backing the controls?

(For reference, I'm asking this because I don't see where the Windows Forms Designer generates code to call Dispose on a Form's children)

Answer 1

Form.Dispose() will dispose of the controls within the Controls collection. So removing the control from Controls will require you to dispose of the control yourself.