Re: C# memory problem: no end for our problem ?

[Ted Miller]

Isn't this what GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers is for?

For example I use an external COM object over which I have no control, that
keeps a file open for exclusive access. When the COM object is destroyed,
the file is released. Fine in COM but the rest of my C# program wants to
open that file for read access once I've finished using the COM object to
manipulate the file.

The following:

MyComObject obj = new MyComObject("filename");
//...
obj = null;
GC.Collect();

does not work reliably, but the addition of

GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()

seems to do the trick.

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