Dispose Tag about libplctag.net HOT 4 CLOSED

This is a good pickup, according to once of my go-to sources:

Once disposed, an object is beyond redemption. It cannot be reactivated, and calling its methods or properties (other than Dispose) throws an ObjectDisposedException.
Albahari, Joseph; Albahari, Ben. C# 7.0 in a Nutshell (p. 514). O'Reilly Media. Kindle Edition.

FYI Internally, IsInitialized is separate to IsDisposed - the tag handle creation does some communication with the PLC, and libplctag core library has the concept of an async constructor. Of course in C# there is no such thing as an async constructor, so we decided to separate the initialization, so it can be lazily initialized (or if you wanted to create several hundred tags at once, you could do them all at once, asynchronously, rather than one after the other).

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Btw @romanka5150 - what you've done is fine. You don't need to call Dispose() yourself because the GarbageCollector will do this for you.

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@romanka5150 - it also looks like you're using the lower level (native) class for Tag. That's fine by all means, but there is also an implementation that handles types and offsets for you.

It looks like your setting up a length read in order to eventually retrieve a string.

Here's an example of the higher level syntax, in this case writing an array of strings:

            var stringTag = new Tag<StringPlcMapper, string[]>()
            {
                Name = "MY_STRING_1D[0]",
                Gateway = gateway,
                Path = path,
                Protocol = Protocol.ab_eip,
                PlcType = PlcType.ControlLogix,
                ArrayDimensions = new int[] { 100 },
            };
            var r = new Random((int)DateTime.Now.ToBinary());

            for (int ii = 0; ii < stringTag.Value.Length; ii++)
                stringTag.Value[ii] = r.Next().ToString();

            stringTag.Write();

More examples here: https://github.com/libplctag/libplctag.NET/tree/master/src/Examples/CSharp%20DotNetCore

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This should be closed by #99.
It'll make it into the next build.

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