When to dispose and why?

Question

I asked a question about this method:

// Save an object out to the disk
public static void SerializeObject(this T toSerialize, String filename)
{
           


        

Answer 1

If you are using native resources (for example file handles) then you should call Dispose() to close them soon, and not when the GC runs(which might be much later in higher gc generations). And you want to close the file since file access usually locks the file in some way.