How to reclaim the memory manually

[devin123]

Hi, I know GC does memory management manually. If i want to manually reclaim the memory of an object, how can I do it. Thanks Devin

[Colin Angus Mackay]

Of a single object, you cannot. In general, you can call GC.GarbageCollect() to force a garbage collection, however this is not recommended as the system is tuned to perform this at optimal times.

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[devin123]

Then what does, GC.Collect() do what is differnce between them Devin

[Colin Angus Mackay]

Sorry, I was going from memory. I meant GC.Collect() From MSDN: GC.Collect()[^]: Forces garbage collection for all generations.

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[devin123]

I think using GC.Collect we achieve finalization not memory reclaimation. Is I am right. Explain.

[Colin Angus Mackay]

It will reclaim the memory. If an object requires it then the finaliser will be called first. The finalisation process is inefficient and objects that have finalisers will also have a Dispose() method. So, you should call Dispose() on an oject if it has that method. The Dispose() method will generally suppress the finalisation on that object making garbage collection more efficient.

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[devin123]

Thka colin for your help.