Will ignoring IDisposable cause memory leaks?

Question

In the comments to an answer I wrote we had a discussion about memory leaks and IDisposable where we didn\'t come to any real conclusion.

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Answer 1

To my knowledge the GC will not call Dispose. You have to call it yourself explicitly or use using. So the answer is: Yes, if the class handles unmanaged resources, which are released in Dispose, your class will leak, if you don't call Dispose.