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

To quote from Framework Design Guidelines by Cwalina and Abrams in the section about the dispose pattern:

CONSIDER providing method Close(), in addition to the Dispose(), if close is standard terminology in the area.

Apparently Microsoft follow their own guidelines, and assuming this is almost always a safe bet for the .NET base class library.