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        FormDialogBox frmDialog = new FormDialogBox();
        if (frmDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
        {
                MessageBox.Show("Thanks " + frmDialog.UserName);
                frmDialog.Dispose();
                MessageBox.Show("Thanks " + frmDialog.UserName);
        }

TIA

If you do.. frmDialog=null and then GC.Collect() the thing will be well and
truly dead.

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Quote:> Hello all.  I am using the ShowDialog on a form (FormDialogBox).  The
> form exposes a custom property (UserName).  I call the ShowDialog
> method on the form, enter some data into the user name text box.
> Press the OK button.  Then from the calling class (the parent), check
> for DialogResult.OK.  If OK, then I display a MessageBox with the
> UserName property.  After calling Dispose on the frmDialog, I make
> another call to MessageBox.Show passing in the same UserName property.
> This displays back the same name, even after I called Dispose()?  I
> read that Close will not close because this was called via ShowDialog?
> That's why I tried Dispose().  However, I have learned the a method
> like Close() generally just calls Dispose?  Well, in either case, I am
> getting back the same result, the value of the UserName property i
> sbeing returned twice.  Can anyone explain this to me or point me to a
> reference on this behavior?

> FormDialogBox frmDialog = new FormDialogBox();
> if (frmDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
> {
> MessageBox.Show("Thanks " + frmDialog.UserName);
> frmDialog.Dispose();
> MessageBox.Show("Thanks " + frmDialog.UserName);
> }

> TIA

But what I've read about the GC is that it will only collect the object when
there are no remaining references to it.  So though you called dispose, the
GC wont collect it until you set your frmDialog to NULL (and of course the
GC runs). Until then, as long as you hang onto that frmDialog reference, the
object instance will never go away, and hence your member variable also will
not go away.

Thats my theory on it, anyone else? :)
B

Quote:> Hello all.  I am using the ShowDialog on a form (FormDialogBox).  The
> form exposes a custom property (UserName).  I call the ShowDialog
> method on the form, enter some data into the user name text box.
> Press the OK button.  Then from the calling class (the parent), check
> for DialogResult.OK.  If OK, then I display a MessageBox with the
> UserName property.  After calling Dispose on the frmDialog, I make
> another call to MessageBox.Show passing in the same UserName property.
> This displays back the same name, even after I called Dispose()?  I
> read that Close will not close because this was called via ShowDialog?
> That's why I tried Dispose().  However, I have learned the a method
> like Close() generally just calls Dispose?  Well, in either case, I am
> getting back the same result, the value of the UserName property i
> sbeing returned twice.  Can anyone explain this to me or point me to a
> reference on this behavior?

> FormDialogBox frmDialog = new FormDialogBox();
> if (frmDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
> {
> MessageBox.Show("Thanks " + frmDialog.UserName);
> frmDialog.Dispose();
> MessageBox.Show("Thanks " + frmDialog.UserName);
> }

> TIA

B