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Hi Chee Wee

These are the exact steps, honest :-)


1) Create a new Delphi WinForm app (dotnet)
2) Drop any non-visual component onto the form
3) Put a break line on the first line of the Dispose method

You will see that "components" is always null, so components.Dispose is not 
called.  Therefore MyComponent.Dispose is not called until garbage 
collected, at which point I cannot rely upon my references being valid for 
me to clean them up.

public class MyComponent: System.ComponentModel.Component
{
  protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
  {
    if (disposing)
      //Do anything here, but it will never get called!
  }
}


It's exactly the same in VS2003 but seems to be fixed in VS2005. 
Unfortunately it means that my ECO components are leaving UndoBlocks lying 
around + taking up memory because the component is never disposed.



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