The perils of GC.Collect (or when to use GC.Collect)

posted by  varson (7)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I often get asked about the garbage collector (GC) in the .NET Compact Framework. What is this magic thing that handles all my memory for me? Why do I run into out-of-memory situations and GC.Collect sometimes helps? In the past, I have spent some time describing the GC in my performance talks that I have given and I have always thought of it as almost too meaty. However, people are out there writing huge applications and stressing the memory systems to the max (and believe me, I am not co