Should a managed class that wraps a DirectSound interface be IDisposable?

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Published on 2010-06-18T13:38:53Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 15:43 UTC
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I'm writing a managed wrapper around DirectSound. (It's a simple partial wrapper that solves my specific problem and nothing more. Don't tell me about NAudio or whatever.) Should a managed class that wraps IDirectSound8 be IDisposable and why? Same question about IDirectSoundBuffer8.

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