.Net Application Consuming High Memory

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Customers write various applications based on .NET. Unfortunately lots of customer are under  the impression that the Garbage collector takes care of the memory management and a developer one doesn't have to worry about memory management. Unfortunately this is not true in cases where developers misuse the memory. Garbage Collector takes care of memory management as long as the developers do diligent coding. When this breaks, the app runs into performance issues, Out Of Memory issues.

Below is a list of self-help resources or this scenario. These resources may also be used by Microsoft Support Engineers during an Advisory Services engagement.

Good understnading of pinning (http://blogs.msdn.com/yunjin/archive/2004/01/27/63642.aspx)

Garbage Collector (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/bb985010.aspx)

Maoni's blog on Garbage Collector (http://blogs.msdn.com/maoni)

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