What's the point of overriding Dispose(bool disposing) in .NET?

Question

If I write a class in C# that implements IDisposable, why isn\'t is sufficient for me to simply implement

public void Dispose(){ ... } 

to han

Answer 1

The additional method with the bool disposing came out of a framework design guideline somewhere. It is simply a pattern to allow your class to have the dispose method be able to be called multiple times without throwing an exception. It isn't absolutely needed. Technically you could do it in the dispose method.