Close and Dispose - which to call?

Question

Having read the threads Is SqlCommand.Dispose enough? and Closing and Disposing a WCF Service I am wondering for classes such as SqlConnection or one of the several classes

Answer 1

For SqlConnection, from the perspective of the connection itself, they are equivalent. According to Reflector, Dispose() calls Close() as well as doing a few additional memory-freeing operations -- mostly by setting members equal to null.

For Stream, they actually are equivalent. Stream.Dispose() simply calls Close().