What are ways to solve Memory Leaks in C#

Question

I\'m learning C#. From what I know, you have to set things up correctly to have the garbage collector actually delete everything as it should be. I\'m looking for wisdom learn

Answer 1

The main sources of memory leaks I can think of are:

• keeping references to objects you don't need any more (usually in some sort of collection) So here you need to remember that all things that you add to a collection that you have reference too will stay in memory.

• Having circular references, e.g. having delegates registered with an event. So even though you explicitly don't reference an object, it can't get garbage collected because one of its methods is registered as a delegate with an event. In these cases you need to remember to remove the delegate before discarding the reference.

• Interoperating with native code and failing to free it. Even if you use managed wrappers that implement finalizers, often the CLR doesn't clean them fast enough, because it doesn't understand the memory footprint. You should use the using(IDisposable ){} pattern