Re: Unmanaged resources

Hi, I'm confused about one issue. If a form PInvokes into
unmanaged dll are any resources allocated as a result of the
PInvoke call itself.

A little is allocated for the call itself, but that's it.

I read somewhere that an object which allocates
unmnaged resources needs to be manually disposed.

Any object that allocates unamanaged resources must also free them, as the
GC won't know how to. Typically this is done in the object's finalizer.
It's good practice to implement Dispose on these types of objects, and a
general rule is that if you use an object that implements Dispose, you
should call Dispose when you're done with it.

My current thinking is that a Pinvoke does not allocate an
unmanged resource as a result of the call itself..

Correct.

The unmanged dll may (in my case does and frees them,i've checked with
CodeSnitch).
So as long as any resources in the unmanged code are freed one is ok.

What happens in the Dll stays in the Dll (generally anyway, there are
exceptions, like CeRapiInvoke). If the Dll allocates memory, it should free
it up. Now sometimes that has to happen by an external method call, but
that should be documented.


Is this correct?

Hard to say, as there are exceptions for everything. Generally if you
allocate a resource, you need to deallocate it. If something else allocates
memory, it should clean up after itself and you shouldn't have to care about
it.


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Chris Tacke
OpenNETCF Consulting
www.opennetcf.com
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