.NET Memory Management

Garbage Collection sure is great, isn’t it? We don’t have to keep track of all the memory we’ve allocated and we don’t need to release that memory when it’s no longer needed. Because that is after all what the Garbage Collector does for us, without us having to worry about it. This is actually a widespread misconception among many .NET developers. It’s true that Garbage Collection makes memory management a lot easier, but we simply can’t rely on it all the time. There are most certainly some things you must always keep in mind when it comes to memory management in .NET.