Detach Your Event Handlers
If you would ask any number of .NET developers with a native programming background about the biggest benefits of the platform, they’ll most likely bring up its automatic memory management capabilities that relieve developers of the burden of manual bookkeeping.
As good as this might sound, there are still some caveats to be aware of. In particular, event handlers tend to be common sources of memory leaks when they’re not maintained correctly. What do I mean by “correct maintenance” of event handlers?
Consider the following piece of code:
In the preceding code, we’ve abandoned our Handlers event sink instance by setting ...
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