Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 23. Memory Organization and Garbage Collection

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Memory organization

• Garbage collection

• Understanding the IDisposable interface

• Using the dispose pattern

• Declaring and using finalizers

In Hour 1, “The .NET Framework and C#,” you learned that one of the benefits provided by the .NET Framework is automatic memory management. This helps you create applications that are more stable by preventing many common programming errors and enables you to focus your time on the business logic your application requires. Even with automatic memory management, it is still important to understand how the garbage collector interacts with your program and the types you create.

You briefly learned about value and reference ...