I want to understand how to work with unmanaged resources and when I need the SafeHandle class. What can be the problem statement when you can say: "O ...

I am working on Python interop. Internally, Python keeps reference counters for all objects via Py_IncRef and Py_DecRef. I want to ensure proper final ...

I have file paths which are very long, so can be handled only using SafeFileHandle. Want to get creation datetime. When tried getting millies and then ...

I am writing a .NET application where I have to use API calls (really). My application gets COM interfaces by calling Win API's function CoCreateInsta ...

I got a somehow complex .net console application, that uses WPF for some notification windows and also does some http calls. In very rare cases, that ...

I haven't worked much with streams, so I assume there's a coding error here on my part, somewhere. Here's the error in SQL Server 2012 CLR: ...

There is a method within BCryptNative called GetInt32Property. It has the following signature: This method only works when T is of type SafeBCryptA ...

I have code that needs to pinvoke a c dll, it seems to me that this code should implement idisposible since it touches unmanaged code. I could be wron ...

I'm working with some F# code that uses platform invoke. One of the APIs I'm using returns a handle. Instead of using a nativeint, I've implemented my ...

Consider the following code which I recently changed to use FileStream.SafeFileHandle: I had previously added the GC.KeepAlive(fs) to ensure that t ...