How to dispose BackgroundWorkers the right way

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Published on 2010-05-31T22:36:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 22:43 UTC
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I've got a Windows Service that runs BackgroundWorker's, and I'm wondering if I'm doing the right thing when I stop my Windows Service.

Is it enough to:

Let the BackgroundWorker1_DoWork method complete (I have a while loop in it now, doing some tasks)
Set the variable that holds the reference to the BackgroundWorker, to null

Is there some kind of Dispose() method I need to call (In the same way the Timer class has Timer.Dispose();)?

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