Re: [Pnet-developers] Destructors are not being called - bug or usage error?

[Norbert Bollow]

Would it be possible for our engine to guarantee that all finalizers
are called prior to exit?

How hard would that be to implement?

Greetings,
Norbert.

David Logan <address@hidden> wrote:

> OK, technically I can respect that. But in oop-speak, I thought the idea 
> was that code and data were self contained. That statement would mean 
> that a class is responsible for its *own* cleanup. But now, by not 
> requiring destructor calls, the requirement that a class execut its 
> "shutdown code" or "cleanup code" has now been moved to the calling 
> class, hasn't it?
> 
> David Logan
> 
> Rhys Weatherley wrote:

>> The Form.Closed event is where cleanup operations like this will
>> normally be placed.  You can also trap Application.ApplicationExit,
>> or put the code just after your main call to "Application.Run".
>> 
>> While the engine should make the best effort to call all finalizers
>> prior to exit, the standard makes no guarantee.  If you need
>> something to happen on exit, then you must arrange for it to be
>> called explicitly.