Disposing a base class when Derived have no resources of its own to Dispose

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I've seen many answers showing how to implement Dispose on both Base and Derived (ie like this).

I am however not sure about the case where I'm deriving from Base which implements IDisposed but my Derived have no resources of it's own that need disposing.

In this scenario do I still need to override Dispose at all ?

If you derived class don't hold resources which need explicit calls to dispose then no need to override `Dispose()`. — Le Vu, Aug 22 '21 at 09:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '21 at 10:01

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The simple answer is no you don't need to. It will call the Dispose of the base class, and that all you need.

answered Aug 22 '21 at 10:01

Ethan.S

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I assume I still need to do 'using (derived) { ... }` ? – kofifus Aug 22 '21 at 22:45
@kofifus You should always properly dispose the object by using the `using` keyword or calling the `Dispose` method when the object is no longer needed. – Ethan.S Aug 23 '21 at 06:58

Disposing a base class when Derived have no resources of its own to Dispose

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