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Does "using" block release resource when program force closed

Question as per title.

I have a piece of code that does this:

    using (SqlConnection dbcon = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
    using (SqlDataAdapter dataAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter(statement, dbcon))
    {
        dat_set = new System.Data.DataSet();

        dbcon.Open();
        dataAdapter.Fill(dat_set, name);  
    }

when I force exit the program when the dataAdapter is still filling the data set, the program freeze and stop responding.

I know "using" block release the resource when they go out of scope, but in the case of force termination, does the resources get release gracefully?

If a process exits, all the native resources (network handles, file handles etc) are cleared up by the operating system. I wouldn't expect the using statement to come into effect here - I suspect the OS will kill the threads too hard for it to get a chance to do the clean-up itself. That means you'll still end up with the clean-up being done... but any flushing you might expect to happen as part of a using statement (e.g. in a file writing scenario) may not happen.

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