MemoryStream must be explicitely be disposed?

Question

As MemoryStream is an unmanaged resource does it always have to be disposed?

Given:

1) A method is invoked.
2) A MemoryStream object is created (Mem         


        

Answer 1

Any type that implements IDisposable should have Dispose called on it either explicitly via a try/catch/finally block or via the using statement.

There are cases such as this where technically the MemoryStream does not need disposed, however to honor the interface and protect yourself from changes downstream Dispose should still be called.