Undisposed.Fody

Undisposed.Fody is a Fody addin and a standalone application that helps to track down undisposed objects. Occasionally crashes or application hangs are caused by undisposed objects, especially if the objects references COM objects.

This tool injects some code in all classes that implement IDisposable. It registers the creation of such objects and dumps the undisposed objects together with object creation counter. This helps to set a breakpoint in the constructor and break on the n-th call, thus making it possible to see where the object got created (and not disposed later on).

Usage

Several methods are available to control the behavior of the dispose tracker:

• Undisposed.DisposeTracker.OutputKind: controls the output on creating and disposing objects.

  TrackerOutputKind.Registration: output a message to console on the creation and disposal of objects

  TrackerOutputKind.Dump: after disposing an object dump all remaining undisposed objects.

  TrackerOutputKind.None: no output. This is useful to speed up the application. Object creation and disposal are still tracked; one of the output options can be set in debugger at a relevant point in code.

  The default value is to output both.

• Undisposed.DisposeTracker.TrackCreationStackTrace: if set to true the call stack will be dumped below the dumped undisposed object.

• Undisposed.DisposeTracker.DumpUndisposedObjects(): Dumps all undisposed objects.

Simple Case

All objects which implement IDisposable will have their creation/disposal tracked.

Your Code

public class Sample : IDisposable
{
    public void Dispose()
    {
    }
}

What gets compiled

public class Sample : IDisposable
{
    public Sample()
    {
        Undisposed.DisposeTracker.Register(this);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        Undisposed.DisposeTracker.Unregister(this);
    }
}

What if I have a class I don't want to be tracked

Simple. Just add the [Undisposed.DoNotTrack] attribute to the class you don't want to be tracked. Then Undisposed will not touch it.

Installation

From nuget package

Simply install the Undisposed.Fody nuget package.

From source

Create a subdirectory Tools in the solution directory and copy Undisposed.Fody.dll there. Add the nuget package Fody to your project, add to the FodyWeavers.xml file, add a WeaverFiles item group which includes Undisposed.Fody.dll like this:

  <ItemGroup>
    <WeaverFiles Include="..\Tools\Undisposed.Fody.dll" />
  </ItemGroup>

and add a reference to Undisposed.Fody.dll.

When you build your project the dispose tracking calls get injected. The Sample project demonstrates the usage.