Implementing Finalize and Dispose to Clean Up Unmanaged Resources

// Design pattern for a base class.
public class Base: IDisposable
{
    private bool disposed = false;

    //Implement IDisposable.
    public void Dispose()
    {
        Dispose(true);
        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
    }

    protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (!disposed)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                // Free other state (managed objects).
            }
            // Free your own state (unmanaged objects).
            // Set large fields to null.
            disposed = true;
        }
    }

    // Use C# destructor syntax for finalization code.
    ~Base()
    {
        // Simply call Dispose(false).
        Dispose (false);
    }
}

// Design pattern for a derived class.
public class Derived: Base
{
    private bool disposed = false;

    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (!disposed)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                // Release managed resources.
            }
            // Release unmanaged resources.
            // Set large fields to null.
           // Call Dispose on your base class.
            disposed = true;
        }
        base.Dispose(disposing);
    }
    // The derived class does not have a Finalize method
    // or a Dispose method without parameters because it inherits
    // them from the base class.
}