Purpose of Dispose calling Dispose(IsDisposing) pattern in C#?

Question

Here is code from MSDN. I don't understand why the work isn't just done in the regular Dispose() method here. What is the purpose of having the Dispose(bool) method? Who would ever call Dispose(false) here?

public void Dispose() 
{
    Dispose(true);

    // Use SupressFinalize in case a subclass
    // of this type implements a finalizer.
    GC.SuppressFinalize(this);      
}

protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
    // If you need thread safety, use a lock around these 
    // operations, as well as in your methods that use the resource.
    if (!_disposed)
    {
        if (disposing) {
            if (_resource != null)
                _resource.Dispose();
                Console.WriteLine("Object disposed.");
        }

        // Indicate that the instance has been disposed.
        _resource = null;
        _disposed = true;   
    }
}

Answer 1

The finalizer would call Dispose(false) - in which case you don't touch any of the other managed resources (which may already have been finalized).

Personally I don't follow this pattern often - because I only very, very rarely need a finalizer, and it's also rare for me to write a non-sealed IDisposable implementation. If you're writing a sealed class without a finalizer, I would go for a simple implementation.