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Further to my earlier reply, if I were to implement IDisposable the Port class would need to look something like this. I think this is messier but I do understand the reasoning for the recommendation for using Dispose.
C#
using System;

namespace MIDI.NET.Ports
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents a MIDI port.
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class Port : IDisposable
    {
        bool disposed;

        ~Port()
        {
            Dispose(false);
        }

        public virtual void Close()
        {
            if (disposed)
                throw new ObjectDisposedException(
                    ToString(),
                    "This port has been disposed. If you wish to reuse it please use the ReCreate method.");
        }

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

        protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (!disposed)
            {
                if (disposing)
                {
                    // Managed clean up only
                }
                Close();
                disposed = true;
            }
        }

        public void Recreate()
        {
            if (disposed)
            {
                GC.ReRegisterForFinalize(this);
                disposed = false;
            }
        }
    }
}


I haven't tested this yet, but I'm 99% certain this gave me problems when I tried a similar implementation some months ago. Sometimes ports never closed so the application hung (often invisibly) or it created system instability, sometimes I got Access Violation (or similar) errors. I never got to the bottom of the problem but I figured it was one of the following:

1. Close being called on the instance could not be guaranteed to be successful as fields of the class may no longer be accessible (a loose theory and quite possibly/likely wrong!)
2. When calling Open on the port a callback is created which lasts beyond the call to Close as the Close itself generates a callback. Once this callback is registered it cannot be unregistered (that's the way the API works). Calling Close during Dispose may be too late as the callback delegate (and it's target) may now be collected making the unmanaged callback invalid (quite probable although badly explained!)

Dave

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