Is there a better deterministic disposal pattern than nested “using”s?

Question

In C#, if I want to deterministically clean up non-managed resources, I can use the \"using\" keyword. But for multiple dependent objects, this ends up nesting further and furt

Answer 1

You don't have to nest with multiple usings:

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:\file.txt", FileMode.Open))
using (BufferedStream bs = new BufferedStream(fs))
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(bs))
{
    // all three get disposed when you're done
}