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Memory management, and in particular cleaning up any resources that are no longer needed by an application, is an important service provided by the .NET Framework. The aim of this chapter is to make sure you understand at a fairly detailed level how the main .NET resource cleanup system, the garbage collector, works and how best to use the garbage collection services in your code. I’ll also explain the best methods for implementing objects that can be cleared up by the garbage collector.
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Robinson, S. (2004). Understanding Garbage Collection. In: Expert .NET 1.1 Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0726-9_5
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