Avoiding disposing system-defined Pen and Brush instances

Question

I understand it is best practise to call Dispose() on instances of Pen and Brush, except if they\'ve been set to the system-predefined values (eg. System.Drawing.Brushes, Syste

Answer 1

Short answer is,.. if you create it, either delegate responsibility to clean up or clean the objects up yourselves. You can create GDI resource "leaks" by letting things hang in the garbage collector. They may eventually be cleaned up, but they are not doing any good hanging there. i.e. if you don't call "close" or Dispose on opened files, the file's remain locked until the GC "gets around to it"