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Interviewer asked me about this today ...is there an answer ?

In my experience it seems that most people will tell you that it is unwise to force a garbage collection but in some cases where you are working with large objects that don't always get collected in ...

I am trying to migrate a database where images were stored in the database to a record in the database pointing at a file on the hard drive. I was trying to use Parallel.ForEach to speed up the ...

I'm sorry if this is an obvious question but neither Google or a search here led me to an answer. Is there a way to remove an array entirely? I want the opposite of int[] array = new int[5]

Is it possible to run .NET garbage collector from command line, e.g. without writing code? Edit: When asked this question, I meant exactly what asked here for Java garbage collector: How to request ...

How do I get the Process ID from a running object? Dim xlApp As Object = CreateObject("Excel.Application") I need to use late binding because I can't guarantee which version I will get so using ...

I want to know what action is performed when we call Dispose() method. Is Object frees all resources quickly on Dispose() call or Dispose() marks the Object is ready for garbage collection. And What ...

Is there any way to get GC.Collect() to be called before throwing an OutOfMemoryException? I suppose I'm looking for a way for it to do the following code flow: Try to Allocate Memory On Pass Return ...

I am downloading a lot of data in a loop but after some operations I remove them but what I see is that memory allocation is growing really fast, few seconds and 1GB, so how can clean after each ...

I've been thinking if there's a way how to speed up freeing memory in .NET. I'm creating a game in .NET (only managed code) where no significant graphics is needed but still I would like to write it ...

I've seen a lot of articles and questions about how to be sure that Excel actually quits when you want it to and the process doesn't stay alive. Here is a knowledge Base article describing the problem ...

i m trying to get excel sheet-name of a excel file from vb.net 3.5 however it opens but excel.exe still remains in the process. How do i stop the process without killing the excel.exe from task ...

I have a C# console program. When it runs, it instantiates some Excel objects such as: (openExcelO). When the program is done running, I have a method to close down Excel (closeExcel) and that is ...

I found this code online that is appended after deinitializing Excel Interop objects: GC.Collect(); GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); GC.Collect(); GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(); Is this quasi-violation ...

How can I force a shrink of a DataTable and/or List so that I can free memory efficiently? I am currently removing the processed row from the DataSet every iteration of the loop, but I'm not sure if ...