>>There is Using statement in VB.NET
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>>http://www.pluralsight-training.net/community/blogs/fritz/archive/2005/04/28/7834.aspx
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>Harold Square wrote re: Using statement in VB.NET 2.0
>on 02-10-2007 5:59 PM
>Thank God you can still go to C++ if you want a modern .net language with destructors, instead of this nonsense of having the human do the error-prone task of being careful to dispose of each item at the correct time.
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>I'm still baffled that they took such a step backwards with C# -- what were they thinking, that assembler is their goal? :)
>Indeed no? What were they thinking.
>
>Thanks Rob, Naomi.
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>Are you saying then that I don't need to call the dispose method explicitly if I use the "using" syntax?

I believe the answer is Yes.