Using Flush and Dispose on grapichs object !

[Hussam Fattahi]

if we create an Graphics object named graph, use it to draw shap or any other thing. what would happen if i didn't used graph.Flush(),and graph.Dispose() after finish using the graph object. thanks in advance Hussam

[Colin Angus Mackay]

I'm not sure about what Flush does in this context, but if it is like a file then it won't necessariliy complete the rendering until some later stage. Dispose is easier because it is a well defined interface. If you fail to call Dispose the garbage collector will dispose the object at some later stage. However, if an object has a Dispose method or implements IDisposable then you should be disposing it because it means the object had unmanaged or scarce resources which need to be freed up. Failing to free the resource in a timely manner may cause your application to perform poorly or crash (the resource be become exhausted and the garbage collector won't know anything about it)

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