Do I need to call Dispose() on managed objects?

Question

I can\'t believe I\'m still confused about this but, any way, lets finally nail it:

I have a class that overrides OnPaint to do some drawing. To speed things up, I c

Answer 1

Others have alluded to "using" blocks for GDI objects - here's a code example:

using( var bm = new Bitmap() )
using( var brush = new Brush() )
{

   // code that uses the GDI objects goes here
   ...

} // objects are automatically disposed here, even if there's an exception

Note that you can have as many "using" lines as you want for a single code block.

I think this is a nice, clean way to deal with Disposable objects.