#pragma warning restore 1591

        //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        //
        // Method: Dispose
        //
        //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        /// <summary>
        /// Provides a method to free unmanaged resources used by this class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">Whether the method is being called as part of an explicit Dispose routine, and hence whether managed resources should also be freed.</param>
        protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (!disposed)
            {
                if (disposing)
                {
                    // Free other state (managed objects).
                }
                // Free your own state (unmanaged objects).
                if (loggerImplementation != null)
                {
                    loggerImplementation.Dispose();
                }
                // Set large fields to null.
                loggerImplementation = null;

                disposed = true;
            }
        }
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //
 // Method: FileMetricLogger (constructor)
 //
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 /// <summary>
 /// Initialises a new instance of the ApplicationMetrics.FileMetricLogger class.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="separatorCharacter">The character to use to separate fields (e.g. date/time stamp, metric name) in the file.</param>
 /// <param name="filePath">The full path of the file to write the metric events to.</param>
 /// <param name="bufferProcessingStrategy">Object which implements a processing strategy for the buffers (queues).</param>
 /// <param name="intervalMetricChecking">Specifies whether an exception should be thrown if the correct order of interval metric logging is not followed (e.g. End() method called before Begin()).</param>
 public FileMetricLogger(char separatorCharacter, string filePath, IBufferProcessingStrategy bufferProcessingStrategy, bool intervalMetricChecking)
 {
     loggerImplementation = new FileMetricLoggerImplementation(separatorCharacter, filePath, bufferProcessingStrategy, intervalMetricChecking);
 }
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //
 // Method: FileMetricLogger (constructor)
 //
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 /// <summary>
 /// Initialises a new instance of the ApplicationMetrics.FileMetricLogger class.
 /// </summary>
 /// <remarks>This constructor defaults to using the LoopingWorkerThreadBufferProcessor as the buffer processing strategy, and is maintained for backwards compatibility.</remarks>
 /// <param name="separatorCharacter">The character to use to separate fields (e.g. date/time stamp, metric name) in the file.</param>
 /// <param name="filePath">The full path of the file to write the metric events to.</param>
 /// <param name="dequeueOperationLoopInterval">The time to wait (in milliseconds) between iterations of the worker thread which dequeues metric events and writes them to the file.</param>
 /// <param name="intervalMetricChecking">Specifies whether an exception should be thrown if the correct order of interval metric logging is not followed (e.g. End() method called before Begin()).</param>
 /// <param name="appendToFile">Whether to append to an existing file (if it exists) or overwrite.  A value of true causes appending.</param>
 /// <param name="fileEncoding">The character encoding to use in the file.</param>
 public FileMetricLogger(char separatorCharacter, string filePath, int dequeueOperationLoopInterval, bool intervalMetricChecking, bool appendToFile, Encoding fileEncoding)
 {
     loggerImplementation = new FileMetricLoggerImplementation(separatorCharacter, filePath, new LoopingWorkerThreadBufferProcessor(dequeueOperationLoopInterval, false), intervalMetricChecking, appendToFile, fileEncoding);
 }
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //
 // Method: FileMetricLogger (constructor)
 //
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 /// <summary>
 /// Initialises a new instance of the ApplicationMetrics.FileMetricLogger class.  Note this is an additional constructor to facilitate unit tests, and should not be used to instantiate the class under normal conditions.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="separatorCharacter">The character to use to separate fields (e.g. date/time stamp, metric name) in the file.</param>
 /// <param name="bufferProcessingStrategy">Object which implements a processing strategy for the buffers (queues).</param>
 /// <param name="intervalMetricChecking">Specifies whether an exception should be thrown if the correct order of interval metric logging is not followed (e.g. End() method called before Begin()).</param>
 /// <param name="streamWriter">A test (mock) stream writer.</param>
 /// <param name="dateTime">A test (mock) DateTime object.</param>
 /// <param name="exceptionHandler">A test (mock) exception handler object.</param>
 public FileMetricLogger(char separatorCharacter, IBufferProcessingStrategy bufferProcessingStrategy, bool intervalMetricChecking, IStreamWriter streamWriter, IDateTime dateTime, IExceptionHandler exceptionHandler)
 {
     loggerImplementation = new FileMetricLoggerImplementation(separatorCharacter, bufferProcessingStrategy, intervalMetricChecking, streamWriter, dateTime, exceptionHandler);
 }