Does garbage collector call Dispose()? [duplicate]

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The GC does not call Dispose, it calls your finalizer (which you should make call Dispose(false)).

Please look at the related posts on the side or look up the C# best practices for the Dispose pattern (The docs on IDisposable explain it quite well IIRC.)

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