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 can omit the curly braces, like:

using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:\file.txt", FileMode.Open))
using (BufferedStream bs = new BufferedStream(fs))
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(bs))
{
        // use sr, and have everything cleaned up when done.
}

or use the regular try finally approach:

FileStream fs = new FileStream("c:\file.txt", FileMode.Open);
BufferedStream bs = new BufferedStream(fs);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(bs);
try
{
        // use sr, and have everything cleaned up when done.
}finally{
   sr.Close(); // should be enough since you hand control to the reader
}