Garbage Collector

[anotherVBnewbie]

Anyone have a good method for causing the window's garbage collector to run?

[ntg]

I'm not sure there is such a thing. You can force a garbage collector run for your application by using System.GC.Collect().

Cheers,
NTG

[kleinma]

I'm not sure there is such a thing. You can force a garbage collector run for your application by using System.GC.Collect().

Cheers,
NTG

lol isn't your solution doing what you said you weren't sure existed

[wossname]

Existential!

[anotherVBnewbie]

did I post this in the .Net forum or did it get moved?

Anyway, guess maybe I shoulda specified that I was working in vb6.

[ntg]

lol isn't your solution doing what you said you weren't sure existed

I don't think there is a garbage collector for a window alone.

[kleinma]

I don't thing there is a garbage collector for a window alone.

i took it as the window's garbage collector as in

the Microsoft Windows garbage collector... (as in the CRL garbage collector)

[MrPolite]

I'm not sure there is such a thing. You can force a garbage collector run for your application by using System.GC.Collect().

Cheers,
NTG

you need to call GC.WaitForPendingFinilizers() right after that

[ntg]

you need to call GC.WaitForPendingFinilizers() right after that

Why is that ?

[MrPolite]

Why is that ?

pauses your thread
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...izersTopic.asp


umm to be honest I've been using it blindly. Back yay when I was learning about vb.net for the first time, I read in a book or wherever that you should always call that after gc.collect().... that isnt completely true I guess

[ntg]

Yeah, I thought that you should call that only if you need to wait for GC to finish. That would be the case if you need finalizers to finish their work and therefore release all resources.