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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Understanding the Finalize Method

The Finalize method can be considered as a destructor that executes code just before an object is effectively destroyed, that is when memory should be effectively released. This method is inherited from System.Object; therefore any class can implement the method by declaring it as Protected Overrides, as follows:

Protected Overrides Sub Finalize()    'Write your code here for releasing    'such as closing db connections,    'closing network connections,    'and other resources that VB cannot understand    MyBase.Finalize() 'this is just the base implementationEnd Sub

If you need to destroy an object that simply uses memory, do not invoke Finalize. You need to invoke it when your ...

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