Can a ThreadStatic IDisposable be automatically disposed?

Question

This is not a question of how to automatically call dispose - my problem is the opposite: I have a thread pool where each thread has a ThreadStatic Graphics (which was creat

Answer 1

If the thread dies completely then the ThreadStatic object for that thread can be collected.

The GC won't call Dispose directly, but if the object has a "fallback" finaliser to clean-up after itself then the GC should call that at some point during the collection process.