Disposable C# Snippets

Visual Studio code snippets were brought up a couple times today.  Which reminded me of the only two snippets I’ve ever written and used.  I think they’re useful to save me some typing.  In C# whenever you have some class that is holding onto unmanaged resources, or even a lot of managed resources, you really need to make it IDisposable.  The problem is it’s a fair amount of repetitive typing to get there. 

A Generic Factory in C#

There is this really popular OOP design pattern that we at Tranxition, and other developers elsewhere, use frequently.  Years ago, after reading about the factory pattern in the GOF book I immediately thought of some possible uses for it in my work.  I was really excited to code it up… the first time.  After having writing the code for one factory though, it was clear to me it should just be a library and there were some things overlooked by most example implementations.