static IDisposable objects

I was recently looking through some code in a commercial product and noticed
a few places where they stored cursors and icons in static objects.

I would like to do something similar where I load two bitmaps in a static
constructor and store them as static members of a class.

My question is, what about IDisposable? There doesn't seem to be any way to
call it.

In my particular case, this is for a custom control and the bitmaps are tiny
(7x4 pixels). Is this considered an acceptable programming practice? I
assume this stuff will get cleaned up with the Finalize() method is called
on the bitmaps. I'm just curious if it's considered acceptable.

Pete

[Sherif ElMetainy]

Hello

It is acceptable if you use the object frequenly in the application, you
want the object to live until the program ends.

Best regards,
Sherif

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I was recently looking through some code in a commercial product and noticed a few places where they stored cursors and icons in static objects.

I would like to do something similar where I load two bitmaps in a static
constructor and store them as static members of a class.

My question is, what about IDisposable? There doesn't seem to be any way to call it.

In my particular case, this is for a custom control and the bitmaps are tiny (7x4 pixels). Is this considered an acceptable programming practice? I
assume this stuff will get cleaned up with the Finalize() method is called
on the bitmaps. I'm just curious if it's considered acceptable.

Pete

[Sherif ElMetainy]

Hello

It is acceptable if you use the object frequenly in the application, you
want the object to live until the program ends.

Best regards,
Sherif

<pd******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5e******************************@news.meganet news.com...

I was recently looking through some code in a commercial product and noticed a few places where they stored cursors and icons in static objects.

I would like to do something similar where I load two bitmaps in a static
constructor and store them as static members of a class.

My question is, what about IDisposable? There doesn't seem to be any way to call it.

In my particular case, this is for a custom control and the bitmaps are tiny (7x4 pixels). Is this considered an acceptable programming practice? I
assume this stuff will get cleaned up with the Finalize() method is called
on the bitmaps. I'm just curious if it's considered acceptable.

Pete