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

It should be noted that generally when creating stream based off another stream the new stream will close the one being passed in. So, to further reduce your example:

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