Cleanup of managed resources in the finalizer?

[berrs]

Is it safe to access object members from a finalizer? I'm talking about normal managed members here, nothing unmanaged. The recommendation used to be that the finalizer should only touch unmanaged resources, since there was no guarantee that managed members were still alive at the time of finalization. However, this page does not mention that at all, so is that recommendation no longer necessesary? Because if it is, I definitely think the page should mention it.

Regards

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• Content: Finalizers - C# Programming Guide
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This article should include a note that managed members may have been disposed, and are therefore not valid.