Memory leaks or GC doesn't invoked?

[Tod Johnson]

Hello all,

I've written application that uses threads/timers and contains many
different forms. I've noticed that if I left my application for the
whole day then device show message that not enough memory.

I'm not using calls of unmanaged code (I suppose so) but maybe it's the
problem in the GC. Maybe I should force him to clean Gen0, Gen1 objects?
Or maybe there is tips how can I detect memory leaks?

Thank you,
Tod

 

[Guest]

First of all the GC in CF doesn't use generations. It's a "mark and sweep"
model. You can read more on that here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/stevenpr/archive/2004/07/26/197254.aspx

As for possible memory leak... Make sure that objects you create are not
been referenced otherwise GC will not consider them for collection.

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Make sure that the forms you create are eventually disposed of. E.g. if you
do this:

MyForm dlg = new MyForm();
dlg.ShowDialog();

then you would do well to call
dlg.Dispose().

Also make sure you are using SP2

 

[Tod Johnson]

Make sure that the forms you create are eventually disposed of. E.g. if you
do this:

MyForm dlg = new MyForm();
dlg.ShowDialog();

then you would do well to call
dlg.Dispose().

oh! thank you for the tips! I'll check it out.