Pro C# 9 with .NET 5: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 9 with .NET 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6939-8_9

9. Understanding Object Lifetime

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phillip Japikse²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

At this point in the book, you have learned a great deal about how to build custom class types using C#. Now you will see how the runtime manages allocated class instances (aka objects) via garbage collection (GC) . C# programmers never directly deallocate a managed object from memory (recall there is no delete keyword in the C# language). Rather, .NET Core objects are allocated to a region of memory termed the managed heap, where they will be automatically ...