Implementing RAII in C#

Question

I have an InfoPath form which I need to conditionally disable it\'s OnChange events. Since it\'s not possible to bind the event handlers after the form has loaded, I\'m forc

Answer 1

No and no. using is the closest you can get to RAII (more accurately, we are talking about the resource release that follows a RAII-idiom object being destructed).

To answer your points more directly:

1. IDisposable (and by extension using) was created exactly because there is no way to do that in .NET.
2. using is syntactic sugar that gets compiled as try/finally and only requires that the object is IDisposable, so you cannot distinguish between usage inside a using statement and out of it.