Do I need to dispose the FileStream object?

Question

I am pretty depressed by my programming knowledge but do we really need to dispose FileStream Object ?

Reason I am asking is because code is throwing \"File being us

Answer 1

If a class implements IDisposable, then you should dispose it so any resources gets closed/cleaned up asap instead of relying on the garbage collector. Better yet, wrap it in a using block so it gets closed even if an exception occurs.

using (var stream = new FileStream(...))
{
   // do stuff with stream
}