Accelerated C# 2008

■Note You may have noticed the legacy Handle property in the documentation. You should avoid this property,

since reassigning it with a new kernel handle won’t close the previous handle, thus resulting in a resource leak

unless you close it yourself. You should use

SafeHandle derived types instead. The SafeHandle type also uses

constrained execution regions to guard against resource leaks in the event of an asynchronous exception such as

ThreadAbortException. You can read more about constrained execution regions in Chapter 7.

In the previous example, you can see that I declared the

CreateEvent method to return a SafeWaitHandle.

Although it’s not obvious ...