C# WPF BitmapSource Memory Leak?

Question

I\'m developing a BlackJack program which shows a BlackJack Table, cards, etc. The plan is that it\'ll be playing thousands of hands one after another with an automated strategy

Answer 1

So first off, you only have 52 cards. Just create the images up front and keep them around for the life of the application. It is a Black Jack game after all; it is safe to assume that each card will be needed at one point or another.

That said, there is an issue with creating BitmapSource objects from streams. The byte[] held by the stream is not being freed when the stream is disposed. See my own question here. The only reason I didn't vote to close as a duplicate is because I think you should really just create the cards once and be done with it instead of creating these images 10,000+ times.