I haven't dealt with this stuff in some time, but I recall that those last two statements are actually needed. I think it was a work-around for a bug\design-fla

I haven't dealt with this stuff in some time, but I recall that those last two statements are actually needed. I think it was a work-around for a bug\design-flaw in the earlier .NET garbage collector. That last bit on explicitly assigning to null was really weird but in some cases, necessary.