Do I need to call Close() on a ManualResetEvent?

Question

I\'ve been reading up on .NET Threading and was working on some code that uses a ManualResetEvent. I have found lots of code samples on the internet. However, when reading

Answer 1

I've used ManualResetEvent a lot and don't think I've ever used it inside a single method--it's always an instance field of a class. Therefore using() often does not apply.

If you have a class instance field that is an instance of ManualResetEvent, make your class implement IDisposable and in your Dispose() method call ManualResetEvent.Close(). Then in all usages of your class, you need to use using() or make the containing class implement IDisposable and repeat, and repeat...