Why and how to implement IDisposible pattern in your own code. Here you will find almost all aspects of this pattern

Davy Brion came up with an IDisposable base class to provide the needed plumbing for IDisposable types. This implementation takes it a bit further and provides thread safety.

Shows a way to put the recommended IDisposable implementation in a base class, with virtual methods to perform the actual disposal of IDisposables at the right time

Implementing IDisposable interface using ASP.NET AJAX library to simplify creation of cross-browser disposable javascript classes.

The Base Class Library Team at Microsoft provides a great overview of the dispose pattern and object lifetime in the CLR, with links to other interesting object lifetime articles at the bottom.

Most System.Data, System.IO and System.Windows.Controls objects use the IDisposable interface, as well as many others, to free up unmanaged resources that may have been created when the object was initialized. Unmanaged resources are any calls that are made outside of the .NET environment, this can ...

Further thoughts and corrections about IDisposable (sequel to "IDisposable – 1, 2, 3, …").

IDisposable is one of these beasts. Considered to be common knowledge and yet regularly ignored. A well documented pattern and yet occasionaly improperly applied. And this is just the beginning; the finer details are lost more often than not.

A description of a common pattern for working with DataReader object which as described here: http://vaultofthoughts.net/WhatYouShouldDisposeWhenUsingADONET.aspx Is IDisposable and should be disposed!