Thread: Explicitly calling destructor.

The documentation says:

You are responsible for deleting the GDI bitmap and the GDI palette. However, you should not delete the GDI bitmap or the GDI palette until after the GDI+ Bitmap object is deleted or goes out of scope.

My code says:

Code:

Bitmap bmpPdf(hBitmap, NULL);

     ....

bmpPdf.~Bitmap();
DeleteObject(hBitmap);

I'm wondering:
- Is calling the destructor explicitly the equivalent of the object going out of scope?
- Is this acceptable practise?
- Is this common as I haven't seen it before?

Thanks.