General Rule for When to Implement IDisposable

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Answer 1

I normally implement IDisposable every time I need to do a clean up of items. For me this is when writing code that abstracts database/network/filesystems.

It just marks items ready for the Garbage Collector instead of waiting for it to try do it on its own.