C# 4.0 How-To

Chapter 22. Memory Management

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Measure Memory Usage of Your Application

• Clean Up Unmanaged Resources Using Finalization

• Clean Up Managed Resources Using the Dispose Pattern

• Force a Garbage Collection

• Create a Cache That Still Allows Garbage Collection

• Use Pointers

• Speed Up Array Access

• Prevent Memory from Being Moved

• Allocate Unmanaged Memory

One of the greatest advantages to using a managed language such as C# in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) environment is that you don’t have to worry about memory management as much as you did in languages such as C or C++.

That said, there are still memory-related topics that you need to understand as a C# developer. Furthermore, sometimes you just have to drop out of ...