Question

The article for .NET Framework v.2 contains two examples.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.gc.keepalive(v=vs.80).aspx

The first one is of particular interest as it helps with understanding of Garbage Collector behavior.

But other versinos do not contain similar example. What changed in .NET Framework GC for missing example became not actual?

Answer 1

I see nothing in that example became invalid with later versions.

I would guess they were motivated by one of two reasons:

1. The example code isn’t very useful (though it does demonstrate what it’s there to demonstrate), and has no practical effect but to waste memory, it could then become another thing encouraging people to do bizarre things with GC that makes things less performant.
2. Example code are another piece of code that has to be tested, maintained and bug-fixed. Remove an example, and reduce your testing and bug-fixing overhead.