C#: Do I need to dispose a BackgroundWorker created at runtime?

The challenge is making sure you only dispose the BackgroundWorker after it's finished running. You can't do that in the Completed event, because that event is raised by the BackgroundWorker itself.

BackgroundWorker is really intended to be used as a component on a WinForms form, so I would recommend either doing that, or switching to something like Thread.QueueUserWorkItem. This will use a thread-pool thread, and won't require any special cleanup when it's finished.

Why not wrap in a using statement? Not much extra effort and you get the disposal:

private void PerformLongRunningOperation()
    {
        using (BackgroundWorker worker = new BackgroundWorker())
        {
            worker.DoWork += delegate
                             {
                                 // perform long running operation here 
                             };
            worker.RunWorkerAsync();
        }
    }

EDIT:

Ok, I put together a little test to kinda see what is going on with disposal and whatnot:

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Threading;

namespace BackgroundWorkerTest
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static BackgroundWorker _privateWorker;

        private static void Main()
        {
            PrintThread("Main");
            _privateWorker = new BackgroundWorker();
            _privateWorker.DoWork += WorkerDoWork;
            _privateWorker.RunWorkerCompleted += WorkerRunWorkerCompleted;
            _privateWorker.Disposed += WorkerDisposed;
            _privateWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
            _privateWorker.Dispose();
            _privateWorker = null;

            using (var BW = new BackgroundWorker())
            {
                BW.DoWork += delegate
                                 {
                                     Thread.Sleep(2000);
                                     PrintThread("Using Worker Working");
                                 };
                BW.Disposed += delegate { PrintThread("Using Worker Disposed"); };
                BW.RunWorkerCompleted += delegate { PrintThread("Using Worker Completed"); };
                BW.RunWorkerAsync();
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        private static void WorkerDisposed(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            PrintThread("Private Worker Disposed");
        }

        private static void WorkerRunWorkerCompleted(object send