Disposing of FileSystemWatcher

Question

So my understanding is that whenever using a class that implements IDisposable, it\'s parent also needs to implement IDisposable interface. (FileWatcher using FileSystemWatc

Answer 1

Yes, implementing IDisposable is the right solution in this case (in my opinion). Your object is long-lived and has to live outside the scope of any particular function call so all function-scope level solutions (using, try..finally, etc.) are out.

For this, IDisposable is a standard pattern in .NET and you can easily dispose of the nested object when FileWatcher is disposed of.