Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management - Simple Talk

Classes .....................................................................................................................................117
Size of an Object ....................................................................................................................117
Delegates ................................................................................................................................ 124
Closures............................................................................................................................128
Effects of Yield ......................................................................................................................129
Arrays and Collections ......................................................................................................... 136
Excessive References ............................................................................................................ 141
Excessive Writes and Hitting the Write Barrier .............................................................. 142
Fragmentation ...................................................................................................................... 143
Long-Lived Objects .............................................................................................................. 143
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................144
Chapter 5: Application-Specific Problems ................................. 146
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................146
IIS and ASP.NET ...................................................................................................................146
Caching ............................................................................................................................147
Debug ............................................................................................................................... 152
StringBuilder ................................................................................................................... 154
ADO.NET ...............................................................................................................................155
LINQ .................................................................................................................................156
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) ......................................................................160
Event handlers ............................................................................................................... 160
Weak event pattern ........................................................................................................ 163
Command bindings .......................................................................................................168
Data binding ....................................................................................................................169
Windows Communication Framework ............................................................................170
Benefits ............................................................................................................................. 171
Drawbacks ....................................................................................................................... 171
Disposable ........................................................................................................................ 173
Configuration .................................................................................................................. 175
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................ 177