What are the uses of “using” in C#?

Question

User kokos answered the wonderful Hidden Features of C# question by mentioning the using keyword. Can you elaborate on that? What are the uses of

Answer 1

Things like this:

using (var conn = new SqlConnection("connection string"))
{
   conn.Open();

    // Execute SQL statement here on the connection you created
}

This SqlConnection will be closed without needing to explicitly call the .Close() function, and this will happen even if an exception is thrown, without the need for a try/catch/finally.