C# conditional using block statement

Question

I have the follow code but it is awkward. How could I better structure it? Do I have to make my consuming class implement IDisposable and conditionally construct the network acc

Answer 1

Use your own try/finally block, which performs similar logic to the 'using', but only does the dispose if useNetworkAccess is set. Note that if useNetworkAccess could be affected by other threads, you should copy its value and use that copy both for creating the resource and disposing it.