What's the purpose of implementing the IDisposable interface?

Question

What\'s the purpose of implementing the IDisposable interface? I\'ve seen some classes implementing it and I don\'t understand why.

Answer 1

It all has to do with the garbage collection mechanism. Chris Sells describes garbage collection, finalizers, and the reason for the Dispose pattern (and the IDisposable interface) episode 10 of .NET Rocks! (starting about 34 minutes in).