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// Force a garbage collection and wait for

// each object to be finalized.

GC.Collect();

GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();

...

}

When you manually force a garbage collection, you should always make a call to GC.

WaitForPendingFinalizers(). With this approach, you can rest assured that all finalizable objects

have had a chance to perform any necessary cleanup before your program continues forward.

Under the hood, GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers() will suspend the calling “thread” during the col-

lection process. This is a good thing, as it ensures your code does not invoke methods on an object

currently being destroyed!

The GC.Collect() method can also be supplied a numerical value that identifies the oldest

generation on which a garbage collection will be performed. For example, if you wished to instruct

the CLR to only investigate generation 0 objects, you would write the following:

C H A P T E R   8  

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U N D E R S TA N D I N G   O B J E C T   L I F E T I M E

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static void Main(string[] args)

{

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