Some of my objects are not being garbage collected, I need to find out where the references to the object are and what is preventing the garbage collection.
I’m using Visual Studio Express.
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Some of my objects are not being garbage collected, I need to find out where the references to the object are and what is preventing the garbage collection.
I’m using Visual Studio Express.
You could try using Ants Memory Profiler which is a very popular tool. It’s fairly easy to use and it attempts to give you a graph illustrating what is holding on to your references. Underneath I believe it does something similar to that which Bond suggested, but it gives a much simpler user experience.
It comes with a free 14 day trial. An example of the instance graph is shown below: