Why call dispose(false) in the destructor?

Question

What follows is a typical dispose pattern example:

 public bool IsDisposed { get; private set; }

  #region IDisposable Members

  public void Dispose()
  {
         


        

Answer 1

"The idea here is that Dispose(Boolean) knows whether it is being called to do explicit cleanup (the Boolean is true) versus being called due to a garbage collection (the Boolean is false). This distinction is useful because, when being disposed explicitly, the Dispose(Boolean) method can safely execute code using reference type fields that refer to other objects knowing for sure that these other objects have not been finalized or disposed of yet. When the Boolean is false, the Dispose(Boolean) method should not execute code that refer to reference type fields because those objects may have already been finalized."

There's much more info in the “Dispose, Finalization, and Resource Management Design Guidelines”.

Edit: link.