Does .Disposing a StreamWriter close the underlying stream?

Question

The StreamWriter.Close() says it also closes the underlying stream of the StreamWriter. What about StreamWriter.Dispose ? Does Dispose also dispose and/or close the underlyi

Answer 1

From StreamWriter.Close()

public override void Close()
{
    this.Dispose(true);
    GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
}

From TextWriter.Dispose() (which StreamWriter inherits)

public void Dispose()
{
    this.Dispose(true);
    GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
}

They are thus, identical.