Managed C++ and IDisposable
I'm writing some code using the new Managed C++/CLI syntax and I ran into this error:
error C2039: 'Dispose' : is not a member of 'System::IDisposable'
the code I started with was this:
image->Dispose(); // image implements IDisposable
which gave me the same compiler error, so I wanted to eliminate a class/namespace error so I rewrote it as this:
((IDisposable ^)image)->Dispose();
Which gave the above error. Yikes!
Here's the fix:
use delete. Managed C++ now hides Dispose() inside the finalizer. Just delete the object, it handles the rest. Freaky.