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

No that is wrong. I agree with Aaronaught.

In addition, Microsoft recommends, in a mid 2003 webcast that Don Box presented, that every .Net developer should dispose of their own objects, whether managed or unmanaged, as this improves code performance by anything upto 20%. If done right it can be a substantial performance improvement. So its a core skill that every .net developer needs to know and use.