Manually destroy C# objects

Question

I am fairly new to learning C# (from Java & C++ background) and I have a question about manual garbage disposal: is it even possible to manually destroy an object in C#?

Answer 1

It's not possible to destroy an object in a deterministic fashion. The CLR determines when the flagged object is reclaimed. This means that while you can flag an object for reclamation and ensure that managed and unmanaged resources are tidied up for disposal (by implementing the IDisposable pattern), the actual time the memory is released is up to the CLR. This is different from C++ where you could actually delete something and it would be released then.