What is the use of garbage collection ?How to do it in code?

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What is garbage collection in .net ?
What is the use of that?
Should we use it in all our code\projects?
How to do it in code?
Please get me some code real life example ?

Posted 17-Feb-15 21:06pm

Am Gayathri

Updated 17-Feb-15 21:07pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 3:20am

Did you try to read something on the topic? Asking questions when you don't yet have a clue (apparently) is possible, but is not the most efficient way of getting qualified help. It's much better to prepare your questions thoroughly. Not only it will give you more, it can also save a lot of your and our time. Invest good deal of time to safe even more future time.
—SA

Am Gayathri 18-Feb-15 3:58am

Ok..I agree with you.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-17T21:13:00

Solution 1

Use garbage collection by knowing that it exists and by never touching it. Why? To start with, understand how it works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)[^].

[EDIT]

Also, this understanding should bring you to the understanding that memory leaks in managed code are still possible, but hardly random ones, mostly by design. To avoid them, all you need is, again understanding — understanding of how not to do something really stupid. Please see my detailed answers on related issues:
Memory management in MDI forms[^],
Best way to get rid of a public static List Causing an Out of Memory[^],
Memory leak in WPF DataBinding[^],
deferring varirable inside the loop can cuase memory leak?[^],
Garbage collectotion takes care of all the memory management[^].

—SA

Posted 17-Feb-15 21:13pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 17-Feb-15 21:17pm

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CPallini 18-Feb-15 3:18am

Exactly: garbage collector is useful if you rarely have to deal with it.
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 3:21am

Thank you, Carlo.
I actually added a lot more to this answer after you voted... :-)
—SA

Am Gayathri 18-Feb-15 3:29am

Thanks SA.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 3:33am

Sure. Will you accept the answer formally now?

(By the way, it's not correct personal addressing, by second name; it can be Sergey, Sergey Alexandrovich, or, in my case, also SA. No problem though, just for your information.)

—SA

TheRealSteveJudge 18-Feb-15 3:43am

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Feb-15 3:48am

Thank you, Steve. I like this proverb — golden words. This is exactly what his forum needs.
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TheRealSteveJudge 18-Feb-15 4:22am

You're welcome!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Jun-15 21:08pm

And by the way, Steve, I hope you will like my own saying as well:
Feeding Apple or Why Don't We Answer Some Questions.

—SA

TheRealSteveJudge 5-Jun-15 9:46am

Hi Sergey,
your own saying is awesome!
I wish I could give five stars for it!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Jun-15 11:06am

Thank you, Steve.
And yes, there are voted on such posts, others up-voted it 3 times. :-)
—SA

TheRealSteveJudge 5-Jun-15 12:57pm

5 Stars!

Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-17T21:22:00

Solution 2

To more about the Garbage Collector, go through Garbage Collection in .NET[^] and many other pages available on the internet.

You cannot do much with GC through managed code.
Check the dispose method for marking objects as ready to delete - Dispose method[^].

Posted 17-Feb-15 21:22pm

Abhinav S

Updated 17-Feb-15 21:30pm

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Am Gayathri 18-Feb-15 3:28am

Thanks Abhinav.. :)